9601 | January 22 | Death | 2012 – Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (b. 1913) |
9602 | January 22 | Death | 2013 – Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (b. 1929) |
9603 | January 22 | Death | 2013 – John Cheng, Singaporean actor (b. 1961) |
9604 | January 22 | Death | 2013 – Anna Litvinova, Russian model Miss Russia 2006 (b. 1983) |
9605 | January 22 | Death | 2013 – Lucyna Winnicka, Polish actress (b. 1928) |
9606 | January 22 | Death | 2014 – François Deguelt, French singer (b. 1932) |
9607 | January 22 | Death | 2014 – Serhiy Nigoyan, Ukrainian activist (b. 1993) |
9608 | January 22 | Death | 2014 – Maziar Partow, Iranian cinematographer (b. 1933) |
9609 | January 22 | Death | 2014 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and producer (b. 1924) |
9610 | January 22 | Death | 2015 – Wendell H. Ford, American lieutenant and politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924) |
9611 | January 22 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Anastasius of PersiaGaudentius of NovaraVincent PallottiVincent of SaragossaVincent, Orontius, and VictorWilliam Joseph ChaminadeJanuary 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
9612 | January 22 | Holiday and observance | Reunion Day (Ukraine) |
9613 | January 23 | Event | 393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. |
9614 | January 23 | Event | 971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song dynasty troops. |
9615 | January 23 | Event | 1264 – 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. |
9616 | January 23 | Event | 1368 – 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. |
9617 | January 23 | Event | 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. |
9618 | January 23 | Event | 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. |
9619 | January 23 | Event | 1570 – 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. |
9620 | January 23 | Event | 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. |
9621 | January 23 | Event | 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. |
9622 | January 23 | Event | 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. |
9623 | January 23 | Event | 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. |
9624 | January 23 | Event | 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) |
9625 | January 23 | Event | 1793 – Second Partition of Poland. |
9626 | January 23 | Event | 1795 – 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 |
9627 | January 23 | Event | 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. |
9628 | January 23 | Event | 1855 – The 1855 Wairarapa earthquake and tsunami leaves nine dead in New Zealand. |
9629 | January 23 | Event | 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge. |
9630 | January 23 | Event | 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. |