2761 | January 6 | Holiday and observance | Armed Forces Day (Iraq) |
2762 | January 6 | Holiday and observance | Christian Feast Day:André Bessette (Roman Catholic Church)Blessed Rita Amada de JesusJanuary 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
2763 | January 6 | Holiday and observance | Epiphany (Western Christianity) or Theophany (Eastern Christianity), and its related observances:Befana Day (Italy)Christmas (Armenian Apostolic Church)Little Christmas (Ireland) |
2764 | January 6 | Holiday and observance | Pathet Lao Day (Laos) |
2765 | January 6 | Holiday and observance | The beginning of the Carnival period, from Epiphany until Shrove Tuesday. (Roman Catholicism) |
2766 | January 7 | Event | 1131 – Canute Lavard was murdered at Haraldsted, Denmark by his cousin Magnus, which led to the civil war in Denmark (1131–34). |
2767 | January 7 | Event | 1325 – Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. |
2768 | January 7 | Event | 1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England. |
2769 | January 7 | Event | 1566 – Pope Pius V is elected. |
2770 | January 7 | Event | 1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia. |
2771 | January 7 | Event | 1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. |
2772 | January 7 | Event | 1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens. |
2773 | January 7 | Event | 1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon. |
2774 | January 7 | Event | 1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used. |
2775 | January 7 | Event | 1835 – HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago. |
2776 | January 7 | Event | 1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. |
2777 | January 7 | Event | 1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". |
2778 | January 7 | Event | 1919 – Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail. |
2779 | January 7 | Event | 1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen. |
2780 | January 7 | Event | 1922 – Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64–57 vote. |
2781 | January 7 | Event | 1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom. |
2782 | January 7 | Event | 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast. |
2783 | January 7 | Event | 1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. |
2784 | January 7 | Event | 1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road. |
2785 | January 7 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins. |
2786 | January 7 | Event | 1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. |
2787 | January 7 | Event | 1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. |
2788 | January 7 | Event | 1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. |
2789 | January 7 | Event | 1955 – Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. |
2790 | January 7 | Event | 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro. |