"On the first week" or"in the first week"

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moonlike

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Hi
Could you help me with these combinations of ordinal numbers and a noun after that? I'm kind of confused.
1. On the first day/ at the first day/ in the first day
2. On the first night/ at the first night/ in the first night.

Thanks a lot.
 

5jj

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All of them are possible in the right context.

On the first day of Chrismas, my true love brought to me ...
We never do much in/on the first day of term.
I wasn't present at/on the first day of the trial.
 
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