January 1

January 1 wears the costume of “fresh start,” but history has always treated it as a working day for revolutions, empires, and strange little calendar stunts. On this date, Rome rewrote time itself, Haiti claimed its freedom, Ellis Island opened its doors, computers began counting from the Unix epoch, and the internet quietly came to life while the rest of the world nursed hangovers.

Echoes: January 1 gathers fifty events from across centuries—wars and treaties, independence days, disasters, inventions, hymns, and legal oddities—and turns each one into an intricate adult coloring page with a short, sharp story behind it. You get Roman senators and Haitian rebels, steam trains and telegraph lines, trade blocs and bombastic flags, plus memorials for the tragedies that landed on this supposedly lucky day.

Use it as a birthday book, a “this day in history” curiosity, or a teaching tool that refuses to sanitize the past. January 1 isn’t just a reset button; it’s a pressure point where humanity keeps deciding, again and again, what kind of year—and world—it wants to build.

paperback, 8.5" x 11", 50 illustrations