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Rose Tyler wishes the Tenth Doctor a happy New Year. (TV: The End of Time (part two) [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010).)

1 January was New Year's Day and the first day of the year on Earth.

Holidays and observances

As the first day of the year, 1 January was celebrated as New Year's Day. The year began with this day because, in 46 BC, Julius Caesar decided he'd start it on the shortest of all days — but when the priests complained, he made a compromise and used the first new moon after the shortest day of the year. This ended up being 1 January. (PROSE: The Doctor's Cross Word [+]JJ Secker, Short Trips: Christmas Around the World (Short Trips short stories, 2008)., Time Traveller's Diary [+]Chris Farnell, BBC Children's Books (2020).)

Depending on the timestream, 1 January marked several New Year's Days in a row on the planet Apalapucia. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Chris Farnell, BBC Children's Books (2020).)

Events

The very first New Year's celebrations took place in Mesopotamia, on land which would later become Iraq. The Thirteenth Doctor and her friends took part in the New Year's celebrations, which Graham O'Brien later expressed was his favourite of the twenty New Year's Eves they had visited in succession. (TV: Resolution [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who New Year Special 2019 (BBC One, 2019).)

In 1801, the Thirteenth Doctor and her companions discovered a dwarf planet with Giuseppe Piazzi. Yaz later recalled this as her favourite New Year's Eve. (TV: Resolution [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who New Year Special 2019 (BBC One, 2019).)

In 1888, Wovoka was cutting pine trees in the Nevada mountains when he fell into a crevice during a solar eclipse, and had a vision of a trailer for Michael Brookhaven's 1990 film The Coyote Road. This was a result of Faction Paradox's attempts to hijack the open door technology. (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

In 1922, having waited around 28 years since he was displaced to 1894, the Ninth Doctor visited the nightclub in Birmingham where Rose Tyler would later be sent back herself. He returned to the club every evening this year to wait, until November when she did appear. (AUDIO: The Other Side [+]Scott Handcock, The Ninth Doctor Chronicles (Big Finish Productions, 2017).)

In 1941, Professor Bernice Summerfield arrived on Guernsey in the English Channel. (AUDIO: Just War [+]Jacqueline Rayner, adapted from Just War (Lance Parkin), Bernice Summerfield: Single Releases (Big Finish Productions, 1999).)

In 1966, the First Doctor's TARDIS departed Trafalgar Square, where it had arrived during the New Year's Eve celebrations. (TV: "Volcano" [+]Part of The Daleks' Master Plan, Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1965-1966).)

Also in 1966, Jill and Bob Mason were married in Crook Marsham. Bob died of a brain aneurysm only four months later. (AUDIO: Nightshade [+]Kyle C Szikora, adapted from Nightshade (Mark Gatiss), Novel Adaptations (Big Finish Productions, 2016).)

In 1990, humanity subconsciously realised that there had been temporal discrepancies in the last two decades. Amara Essy, president of the United Nations Security Council, attended a secret briefing with Brigadiers Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and Charles Crichton in Geneva to establish a dating protocol for the 1970s and 1980s. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

In 2000, the Eighth Doctor departed San Francisco, where he had landed two days earlier. He invited Grace Holloway to join him in the TARDIS, but she declined. The Doctor also did not accept Grace's invitation for him to come with her. However, they shared a goodbye kiss at the start of the new year. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

Also in 2000, Jack Harkness became the leader of Torchwood Three following the death of Alex Hopkins and the rest of the team, (TV: Fragments [+]Chris Chibnall, Torchwood series 2 (BBC Three, 2008).) the Fourth Doctor stopped the Voracians from utilising the Y2K bug from taking over the world in England (PROSE: Millennium Shock [+]Justin Richards, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) while also, later in his timeline, visiting Paris with Romana II and confronting Taureau, (COMIC: "Misdirection" [+]Part of The Forgotten, Tony Lee, IDW mini-series and one-shots (IDW Publishing, 2008-2009).) the Sixth Doctor and Melanie Bush saved the Earth from being taken over by Saraquazel and his servant, Ashley Chapel, (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Craig Hinton, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and the Thirteenth Doctor and her friends watched the fireworks on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (TV: Resolution [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who New Year Special 2019 (BBC One, 2019).)

In 2005, a dying Tenth Doctor finished the journey he deemed the "final reward" (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Russell T Davies, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 (CBBC, 2010).) when he visited Rose Tyler before she had met him. The Doctor commented that she was "gonna have a great year", then saw a vision of Ood Sigma and stumbled back to the TARDIS. He took flight into the Time Vortex and regenerated into the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The End of Time (part two) [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2009 and New Year Special 2010 (BBC One, 2009-2010).)

In 2006, Mickey Smith gave up hope that Rose Tyler and the Doctor would ever return. (PROSE: Mickey's Blog [+]James Goss and Steve Tribe, The Doctor: His Lives and Times (BBC Books, 2013).)

In 2019, a Reconnaissance Dalek which had remained dormant since the 9th century was dug up by archaeologists Lin and Mitch. (TV: Resolution [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who New Year Special 2019 (BBC One, 2019).)

In 2022, the Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Dan, Sarah and Nick escaped a time loop from a squad of Dalek executioners. (TV: Eve of the Daleks [+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who New Year Special 2022 (BBC One, 2022).)

In 2562, while aboard the Goodnight Dolly, Bernice Summerfield was named Master of Science and Archaeology for "shooting somebody". (PROSE: Genius Loci [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Bernice Summerfield novels (Big Finish Productions, 2006).)

Behind the scenes

Resolution took place on the same day as its broadcast: 1 January 2019.

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