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🇰🇪 New Year's Day in Kenya
First day of the calendar year
Date in Kenya
January 1
Instituted1963
Public life in Kenya
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
What this holiday commemorates
- 1964 Kenya Army soldiers at Lanet barracks mutiny and demand rapid Africanization of the officer corps after independence. · Kenya
- 1972 Joseph Murumbi co-founds African Heritage Ltd. alongside his wife Sheila and the American designer Alan Donovan, creating the continent's first pan-Af... · Kenya
- 1982 Joseph Murumbi suffers a severe fall at his home that causes permanent nerve damage, leaving him dependent on a wheelchair in his final years. · Kenya
- 2003 Joseph Murumbi's archival and artistic legacy secured through the establishment of the Murumbi Trust with funding from the Ford Foundation, ensuring c... · Kenya
In Kenya, around 1963
- 1963 Jomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya. · Kenya
- 1963 Kenya attains independence. · Kenya
- 1963 (c.) Joseph Murumbi appointed by Kenyatta as Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office upon Kenya's achievement of self-rule, overseeing defense, in... · Kenya
- 1963 (c.) Richard Achieng Oneko wins the Nakuru Town Constituency parliamentary seat, demonstrating trans-ethnic appeal in a cosmopolitan urban center outside h... · Kenya
- 1963 Richard Achieng Oneko appointed Minister for Information, Broadcasting and Tourism by Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta upon Kenya's attainment of self-gov... · Kenya
- 1963 Paul Ngei leads the African People's Party to major electoral victories across Ukambani during Kenya's pre-independence elections. · Kenya
Other countries celebrating New Year's Day
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Algeria
Jan 1
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Angola
Jan 1
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Benin
Jan 1
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Botswana
Jan 1
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Burkina Faso
Jan 1
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Burundi
Jan 1
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Cape Verde
Jan 1
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Cameroon
Jan 1
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Central African Republic
Jan 1
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Chad
Jan 1
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Comoros
Jan 1
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Congo
Jan 1
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DRCongo
Jan 1
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Côte d'Ivoire
Jan 1
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Djibouti
Jan 1
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Egypt
Jan 1
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Equatorial Guinea
Jan 1
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Eritrea
Jan 1
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Eswatini
Jan 1
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Gabon
Jan 1
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Gambia
Jan 1
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Ghana
Jan 1
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Guinea
Jan 1
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Guinea-Bissau
Jan 1
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Lesotho
Jan 1
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Liberia
Jan 1
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Libya
Jan 1
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Madagascar
Jan 1
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Malawi
Jan 1
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Mali
Jan 1
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Mauritania
Jan 1
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Mauritius
Jan 1
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Morocco
Jan 1
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Mozambique
Jan 1
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Namibia
Jan 1
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Niger
Jan 1
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Nigeria
Jan 1
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Rwanda
Jan 1
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Sao Tome and Principe
Jan 1
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Senegal
Jan 1
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Seychelles
Jan 1
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Sierra Leone
Jan 1
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Somalia
Jan 1
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South Africa
Jan 1
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South Sudan
Jan 1
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Tanzania
Jan 1
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Togo
Jan 1
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Tunisia
Jan 1
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Uganda
Jan 1
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Zambia
Jan 1
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Zimbabwe
Jan 1