Historical Events in January, Month of January Events
Here is a list of some historical events in January. You can learn What major event happened in January?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 30, 1942 | World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are killed after the surrender. One-quarter of the remaining POWs remain alive at the end of the war. |
| January 13, 1793 | Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, is lynched by a mob in Rome. |
| January 29, 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne. |
| January 15, 1559 | Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London. |
| January 5, 1970 | The 7.1 Mw Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 15,000 people are known to have been killed and about another 26,000 are injured. |
| January 21, 1911 | The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place. |
| January 27, 1820 | A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast. |
| January 19, 1986 | The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. |
| January 29, 904 | Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. |
| January 23, 1571 | The Royal Exchange opens in London. |
| January 15, 1865 | American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. |
| January 23, 1900 | Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. |
| January 16, 1900 | The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. |
| January 30, 1960 | The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. |
| January 31, 1862 | Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. |
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