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 the Nativity of Jesus 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 Adolf 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
==Feast days==
===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
===Eastern Orthodoxy===
===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)
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