This Day, That Year – January 1

New Year’s Day was celebrated for the first time in history as the Julian calendar took effect on this day in 45 B.C.

Did you know that:

• The “Daily Universal Register” (Times of London) published its first issue on this day in 1785
• The dwarf planet, Ceres, was discovered by an Italian monk, Giuseppe Piazzi, on this day in 1801
• Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, or “The Modern Prometheus”, was published anonymously on this day in 1818