January 1

The first day of January.

Events

 * [1001: Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Silvester II.
 * 1700: Russia numbers its years from Christ instead of Creation.
 * 1802: Thomas Jefferson's reply to the Danbury Baptist Association establishes "the wall of seperation between church and state."
 * 1935: Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo pays a courtesy call to Adolph Hitler. (The Roman Catholic Church was officially neutral during World War II).
 * 1964: The National Evangelical Lutheran Church, a historically Finnish American church, merges with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, a historically German American church.
 * 1966: Pope Paul VI decalares a jubilee, urging all Catholics to study and accept the decisions of the Second Vatican Council and apply them in spiritual renewal.
 * 1971: Pope Paul VI's motu proprio Ingravescentem Aetatem goes into effect, denying a vote in papal elections to cardinals over the age of 80.
 * 1988: The Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches merge into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Births

 * 1431: Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)

Deaths

 * 379: Saint Basil the Great (b. 330)
 * 404: Saint Telemachus

Roman Catholicism

 * The seventh day of Christmas (and eighth night of same).
 * Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Old calendar).
 * Holy Day of Obligation in many countries.
 * Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (New calendar).
 * Fulgentius of Ruspe
 * Odilo of Cluny
 * Telemachus

Anglicanism

 * Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus

Feasts

 * Feast of the Circumcision of Christ
 * Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia (379)
 * Martyr Basil of Ancyra (362)
 * Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe, Bishop of Ruspe in North Africa
 * Martyr Theodotus
 * Saint Gregory of Nazianzus the Elder, bishop and father of Saint Gregory the Theologian (374)
 * Saint Theodosius of Tryglia, abbot
 * Martyr Peter of the Peloponnesus (1776)
 * New martyrs Platon of Revel, bishop, priest Michael, and priest Nicholas in Estonia (1919)