0754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion

1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal

1536 Catherine o fAragon, the divorced first wife of King Henry VIII of England dies

1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise

1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

1579 England signs an offensive &defensive alliance with the Netherlands

1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia &Holy Roman empire

1598 Boris Godunov seizes the Russian throne on death of Feodore I

1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1610 Galileo discovers3 of Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa &Ganymede

1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor

1622 Germany &Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg

1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 dies

1691 Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Comte de Frontenac 1622-1698 is forced to issue card money to pay the troops in the Quebec garrison, due to the non-arrival of a supply ship.

1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1761 Afghans defeat Mahrattas at Paniput in India.

1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten

1782 The first commercial bank in the U.S., the Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia.

1784 The first US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia

1785 The first balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard &Jeffries)

1789 George Washington is voted in as U.S. president in the first nationwide election

1807 A British Order in Council January 7 prohibits neutral nation ships from trading with France and her allies, but while the Royal Navy blockades Napoleon's ports, the French are agriculturally self-sufficient and suffer less than do the British

1842 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris

1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine

1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV

1867 Private Timothy O'Hea is awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in 1866, protecting the lives of 800 emigrants on a Grand Trunk train menaced by a fire in a boxcar carrying explosives. This is the only VC awarded for a brave deed not done in the face of the enemy

1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson

1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont

1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Valley of Fear" (BG)

1890 Nellie Bly boards the S.S. Oceanic at Yokohama January 7 and sails for San Francisco after having crossed the Atlantic, Europe, and Asia in her well-publicized attempt to girdle the earth in less than 80 days

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