Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
9601January 22Death2012 – Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (b. 1913)
9602January 22Death2013 – Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (b. 1929)
9603January 22Death2013 – John Cheng, Singaporean actor (b. 1961)
9604January 22Death2013 – Anna Litvinova, Russian model Miss Russia 2006 (b. 1983)
9605January 22Death2013 – Lucyna Winnicka, Polish actress (b. 1928)
9606January 22Death2014 – François Deguelt, French singer (b. 1932)
9607January 22Death2014 – Serhiy Nigoyan, Ukrainian activist (b. 1993)
9608January 22Death2014 – Maziar Partow, Iranian cinematographer (b. 1933)
9609January 22Death2014 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (b. 1924)
9610January 22Death2015 – Wendell H. Ford, American lieutenant and politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924)
9611January 22Holiday and observanceChristian feast day:Anastasius of PersiaGaudentius of NovaraVincent PallottiVincent of SaragossaVincent, Orontius, and VictorWilliam Joseph ChaminadeJanuary 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
9612January 22Holiday and observanceReunion Day (Ukraine)
9613January 23Event393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
9614January 23Event971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song dynasty troops.
9615January 23Event1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War.
9616January 23Event1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
9617January 23Event1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
9618January 23Event1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
9619January 23Event1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such.
9620January 23Event1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London.
9621January 23Event1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
9622January 23Event1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
9623January 23Event1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
9624January 23Event1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.)
9625January 23Event1793 – Second Partition of Poland.
9626January 23Event1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry
9627January 23Event1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
9628January 23Event1855 – The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake and tsunami leaves nine dead in New Zealand.
9629January 23Event1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
9630January 23Event1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.

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