January 1st, 1321

Born on January 1st, 1321

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 257,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 331 days, exactly on May 20th, 2027, people who were born on January 1st, 1321 will be 258,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on January 1st?

January 1st, 1995

The World Trade Organization, the international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade, came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

January 1st, 1960

Three men were killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at a public house in Sheffield, England.

January 1st, 2022

Emais Roberts succeeds Temmy Shmull as Governor of Peleliu.

January 1st, 1948

British Railways came into existence when the "Big Four" railway companies were nationalised.

January 1st, 2019

The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.

January 1st, 2009

A nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand, killed 66 patrons celebrating the New Year.

January 1st, 2007

Adam Air Flight 574 crashed into the sea off Polewali, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board, when the pilots inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.

January 1st, 1998

Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena published a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.

January 1st, 1810

Lachlan Macquarie (pictured) became Governor of New South Wales, eventually playing a major role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony in Australia.

January 1st, 1965

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which later helped the country become a republic, was founded.

January 1st, 1957

The revised Thai criminal code came into force, strengthening the law on lèse-majesté in Thailand to include insult and treating it as a crime against national security.

January 1st, 1945

Second World War: The Luftwaffe launched Operation Bodenplatte in an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.

January 1st, 1928

Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, Boris Bazhanov, crossed the Iranian border and defected from the Soviet Union.

January 1st, 1915

Russia withdraws from its occupation of northwestern Iran, enabling a subsequent Ottoman invasion and massacres of Assyrians and Armenians.

January 1st, 1914

The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the U.S. state of Florida became the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft.

Public holidays on January 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Dissolution of Czechoslovakia-related observances, New Year's Day) which are celebrated on January 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1321 is a normal year and no leap year.

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