{"slug": "new-year-s-day", "label": "New Year's Day", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q196627", "qid": "Q196627", "description": "first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 1 January; usually a public holiday", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1155, 1888], "span_label": ["1155 CE", "1888 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 7}], "related": [{"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wales", "label": "Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-scotland", "label": "Kingdom of Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style", "label": "Old Style", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gregorian-calendar", "label": "Gregorian Calendar", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parliament-of-great-britain", "label": "Parliament of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-assent", "label": "Royal assent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bangkok", "label": "Bangkok", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "johann-sebastian-bach", "label": "Johann Sebastian Bach", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ulysses-s-grant", "label": "Ulysses S. Grant", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1155, "year_label": "1155 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "New Year's Day is changed from January 1 to March 25.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359485841#England", "title": "1155", "revid": 1359485841, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1600, "year_label": "1600 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of March 25.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360196741#January–March", "title": "1600", "revid": 1360196741, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16, his church cantata for New Year's Day to a libretto by Georg Christian Lehms.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372345509#January–March", "title": "1726", "revid": 1372345509, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – For the last time, New Year's Day is legally on March 25, in England and Wales and \"in all his Majesty's Dominions in Europe, Asia, Africa and America\" due to the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750. The months of January 1751, February 1751 and most of March 1751 did not exist in British territories: those months were recorded as the last three of 1750 according to the Old Style dating system; the equivalent months a year later were recorded as the first three of 1752 under the New Style system.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#January–March", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 (May 13 Old Style) – Adoption of the Gregorian calendar: Royal assent is given to An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use (the \"Calendar Act\") passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, introducing the Gregorian Calendar, correcting the eleven-day difference between Old Style and New Style dates and making 1 January legally New Year's Day from 1752 in the British Empire. It is largely promoted by George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#April–June", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – American President Ulysses S. Grant signs an act making the United States Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day federal holidays in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#June", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – The first New Year's Day is observed, of the solar calendar adopted by Siamese King Chulalongkorn, with the 106th anniversary of Bangkok's founding in 1782 as its epoch (reference date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#April", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › April"}}]}