Top Historical Events That Happened on January 22 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

0565  Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.   

0871  Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex   

1336  Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies.   

1371  King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned   

1440  Ivan III, the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania.   

1506  The inaugural contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.   

1510  Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany   

1517  Turks conquer Cairo   

1521  Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms   

1528  England and France declare war on Emperor Charles V.   

1531  Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44.   

1552  Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, beheaded for treason.   

1561  Francis Bacon, English politician and philospher is born   

1561  Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum)   

1571  Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician.   

1575  English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly.   

1581  Joost de Damhoudere, Flemish lawyer, dies.   

1584  Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar ( and parts in 1812)   

1588  Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)   

1592  Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher   

1599  Cristofano Malvezzi, composer, dies at 51.   

1640  Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55   

1649  Pascal Collasse, composer   

1655  Geleyn Evertsen, lt-admiral (Zealand).   

1673  Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated   

1689  Lord Halifax is recorded as becoming Speaker of English House of Lords   

1690  Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to the English against the French   

1690  Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French   

1700  Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39   

1707  Carl Hockh, composer.   

1709  Joseph Reipel, composer.   

1727  Claude-Benigne Balbastre, composer   

1729  G E Lessing, writer.   

1733  Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer   

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