Events
Pre-1600
*
1054
Year 1054 ( MLIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Sultan Tughril leads a large Seljuk army out of Azerbaijan into Armenia, poss ...
–
Siward, Earl of Northumbria
Siward ( or more recently ) or Sigurd ( ang, Sigeweard, non, Sigurðr digri) was an important earl of 11th-century northern England. The Old Norse nickname ''Digri'' and its Latin translation ''Grossus'' ("the stout") are given to him by near-c ...
, invades Scotland and defeats
Macbeth, King of Scotland
Macbeth ( – 15 August 1057) was King of Scots from 1040 until his death. He ruled over the Kingdom of Alba, which covered only a portion of present-day Scotland.
Little is known about Macbeth's early life, although he was the son of Findlá ...
, somewhere north of the
Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth () is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south.
Name
''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meanin ...
.
*
1189
Year 1189 ( MCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In English law, 1189 - specifically the beginning of the reign of Richard I - is considered the end of time immemorial.
...
–
Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at
Niš
Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names in other languages) is the third largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District. It is located in southern part of Serbia. , the city proper has a population of 183,164, whil ...
, the capital of
Serbian King
This is an archontological list of Serbian monarchs, containing monarchs of the medieval principalities, to heads of state of modern Serbia.
The Serbian monarchy dates back to the Early Middle Ages. The Serbian royal titles used include Knyaz ...
Stefan Nemanja
Stefan Nemanja (Serbian Cyrillic: , ; – 13 February 1199) was the Grand Prince ( Veliki Župan) of the Serbian Grand Principality (also known as Raška, lat. ) from 1166 to 1196. A member of the Vukanović dynasty, Nemanja founded the Nem ...
, during the
Third Crusade
The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt by three European monarchs of Western Christianity ( Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by ...
.
*
1202
Year 1202 ( MCCII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Fourth Crusade
* April – May – The bulk of the Crusader army gathers at Venice, alth ...
–
Georgian–Seljuk wars
Georgian–Seljuk wars ( ka, ქართულ-სელჩუკური ომები, tr), also known as Georgian Crusade, is a long series of battles and military clashes that took place from 1048 until 1213, between the Kingdom of Geor ...
: At the
Battle of Basian
The Battle of Basiani was fought, in the 13th century, between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Seljuqid Sultanate of Rum in the Basiani valley, 60 km northeast of the city of Erzurum in what is now northeast Republic of Turkey ...
the
Kingdom of Georgia
The Kingdom of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამეფო, tr), also known as the Georgian Empire, was a medieval Eurasian monarchy that was founded in circa 1008 AD. It reached its Golden Age of political and economi ...
defeats the
Sultanate of Rum
fa, سلجوقیان روم ()
, status =
, government_type = Hereditary monarchy Triarchy (1249–1254)Diarchy (1257–1262)
, year_start = 1077
, year_end = 1308
, p1 = B ...
.
*
1214
Year 1214 ( MCCXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1214th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 214th year of the 2nd millennium, the ...
–
Battle of Bouvines
The Battle of Bouvines was fought on 27 July 1214 near the town of Bouvines in the County of Flanders. It was the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214. Although estimates on the number of troops vary considerably among mo ...
:
Philip II of France
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), byname Philip Augustus (french: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French m ...
decisively defeats
Imperial
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Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imperial, Nebraska
* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texas
...
,
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national id ...
and
Flemish
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armies, effectively ending
John of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin E ...
's
Angevin Empire
The Angevin Empire (; french: Empire Plantagenêt) describes the possessions of the House of Plantagenet during the 12th and 13th centuries, when they ruled over an area covering roughly half of France, all of England, and parts of Ireland and ...
.
*
1299
Year 1299 ( MCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* July 4 – Battle of Cape Orlando: A Aragonese-Angevin fleet (some 60 galleys ...
– According to
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer, and member of parliament. His most important work, '' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788, is ...
,
Osman I
Osman I or Osman Ghazi ( ota, عثمان غازى, translit= ʿOsmān Ġāzī; tr, I. Osman or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4), sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman, was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Bey ...
invades the territory of
Nicomedia
Nicomedia (; el, Νικομήδεια, ''Nikomedeia''; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocleti ...
for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the
Ottoman state
The Ottoman Empire developed over the years as a despotism with the Sultan as the supreme ruler of a centralized government that had an effective control of its provinces, officials and inhabitants. Wealth and rank could be inherited but were ...
.
*
1302
Year 1302 ( MCCCII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Co-Emperor Michael IX (Palaiologos) launches a campaign which ...
–
Battle of Bapheus
The Battle of Bapheus occurred on 27 July 1302, between a Ottoman army under Osman I and a Byzantine army under George Mouzalon. The battle ended in a crucial Ottoman victory, cementing the Ottoman state and heralding the final capture of Byz ...
: Decisive
Ottoman victory over the
Byzantines opening up
Bithynia
Bithynia (; Koine Greek: , ''Bithynía'') was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the sout ...
for Turkish conquest.
*
1549
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Year 1549 ( MDXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Kingdom of England, it was known as "The Year of the Many-Headed Monster", because of the unusually high n ...
– The
Jesuit priest
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: ''Franciscus Xaverius''; Basque: ''Frantzisko Xabierkoa''; French: ''François Xavier''; Spanish: ''Francisco Javier''; Portuguese: ''Francisco Xavier''; 7 April 15063 December ...
's ship reaches Japan.
1601–1900
*
1663 – The
English Parliament
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised ...
passes the
second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the
American colonies have to be sent in English ships from English ports. After the
Acts of Union 1707
The Acts of Union ( gd, Achd an Aonaidh) were two Act of Parliament, Acts of Parliament: the Union with Scotland Act 1706 passed by the Parliament of England, and the Union with England Act 1707 passed by the Parliament of Scotland. They put ...
, Scotland would be included in the Act.
*
1689
Events
January–March
* January 22 (January 12, 1688 O.S.) – Glorious Revolution in England: The Convention Parliament is convened to determine if King James II of England, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, vacated ...
–
Glorious Revolution: The
Battle of Killiecrankie
The Battle of Killiecrankie ( gd, Blàr Choille Chnagaidh), also referred to as the Battle of Rinrory, took place on 27 July 1689 during the Jacobite rising of 1689, 1689 Scottish Jacobite rising. An outnumbered Jacobitism, Jacobite force under ...
is a victory for the Jacobites.
*
1694
Events
January–March
* January 16 – Francesco Morosini, the Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of Negropont from the ...
– A
Royal charter
A royal charter is a formal grant issued by a monarch under royal prerogative as letters patent. Historically, they have been used to promulgate public laws, the most famous example being the English Magna Carta (great charter) of 1215, but ...
is granted to the
Bank of England.
*
1714
Events
January–March
* January 21 – After being tricked into deserting a battle against India's Mughal Empire by the rebel Sayyid brothers, Prince Azz-ud-din Mirza is blinded on orders of the Emperor Farrukhsiyar as punishment.
* Feb ...
– The
Great Northern War
The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swed ...
: The first significant victory of the
Russian Navy in the
naval battle of Gangut against the
Swedish Navy
The Swedish Navy ( sv, Svenska marinen) is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Fleet () – as well as marine units, the Amphibious Corps ().
In Swedish, vessels ...
near the
Hanko Peninsula
The Hanko Peninsula ( fi, Hankoniemi; ), also spelled Hango, is the southernmost point of mainland Finland. The soil is a sandy moraine, the last tip of the Salpausselkä ridge, and vegetation consists mainly of pine and low shrubs. The penins ...
.
*
1775
Events
Summary
The American Revolutionary War began this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress t ...
– Founding of the
U.S. Army Medical Department: The
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War. The Congress was creating a new country it first named " United Colonies" and in ...
passes legislation establishing "an hospital for
an army consisting of 20,000 men."
*
1778
Events
January–March
* January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Captain James Cook, with ships HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu then Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, which he ...
–
American Revolution
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791. The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolu ...
:
First Battle of Ushant
The Battle of Ushant (also called the First Battle of Ushant) took place on 27 July 1778, and was fought during the American Revolutionary War between French and British fleets west of Ushant, an island at the mouth of the English Channel off ...
:
British
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English ...
and French fleets fight to a standoff.
*
1789
Events
January–March
* January – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès publishes the pamphlet '' What Is the Third Estate?'' ('), influential on the French Revolution.
* January 7 – The 1788-89 United States presidential electio ...
– The first U.S.
federal government
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-govern ...
agency, the
Department of Foreign Affairs, is established (it will be later renamed
Department of State).
*
1794
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark).
* January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United Sta ...
–
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are conside ...
:
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman who became one of the best-known, influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Esta ...
is
arrested
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after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution".
*
1816
This year was known as the '' Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in ...
– Seminole Wars: The
Battle of Negro Fort
Negro Fort (African Fort) was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida. It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via i ...
ends when a hot shot cannonball fired by US Navy Gunboat No. 154 explodes the fort's Powder Magazine, killing approximately 275. It is considered the deadliest single cannon shot in US history.
*
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* J ...
– Indian Rebellion: Sixty-eight men
hold out for eight days against a force of 2,500 to 3,000 mutinying sepoys and 8,000 irregular forces.
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
–
Welsh settlers arrive at
Chubut Chubut may refer to:
* Chubut Province, Argentina
* Chubut River in the Chubut Province
* Chubut steamer duck
The Chubut steamer duck or white-headed flightless steamer duck (''Tachyeres leucocephalus'') is a flightless duck endemic to Argenti ...
in
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...
.
*
1866
Events January–March
* January 1
** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee.
** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine ''The Liberator'' is published.
* January 6 – Ottoman troo ...
– The first permanent
transatlantic telegraph cable
Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is now an obsolete form of communication, and the cables have long since been decommissioned, but telephone and data ...
is successfully completed, stretching from
Valentia Island
Valentia Island () is one of Ireland's most westerly points. It lies off the Iveragh Peninsula in the southwest of County Kerry. It is linked to the mainland by the Maurice O'Neill Memorial Bridge at Portmagee. A car ferry also departs from ...
, Ireland, to
Heart's Content,
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
.
*
1880
Events
January–March
* January 22 – Toowong State School is founded in Queensland, Australia.
* January – The international White slave trade affair scandal in Brussels is exposed and attracts international infamy.
* February � ...
–
Second Anglo-Afghan War
The Second Anglo-Afghan War (Dari: جنگ دوم افغان و انگلیس, ps, د افغان-انګرېز دويمه جګړه) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the l ...
:
Battle of Maiwand
The Battle of Maiwand ( Dari: نبرد میوند, Pashto: د ميوند جگړه), fought on 27 July 1880, was one of the principal battles of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Under the leadership of Ayub Khan, the Afghan forces defeated a much s ...
:
Afghan forces led by
Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near
Maiwand
Maiwand is a village in Afghanistan within the Maywand District of Kandahar Province. It is located 50 miles northwest of Kandahar, on the main Kandahar–Lashkargah road.
The area is irrigated by the Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority. ,
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bord ...
.
*
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship '' ...
–
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
shoots himself and dies two days later.
*
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), ...
– Kaiser
Wilhelm II makes a
speech
Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if they are th ...
comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
1901–present
*
1917
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary For ...
–
World War I
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: The
Allies
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reach the
Yser Canal at the
Battle of Passchendaele
The Third Battle of Ypres (german: link=no, Dritte Flandernschlacht; french: link=no, Troisième Bataille des Flandres; nl, Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by t ...
.
*
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the ...
– The
Chicago Race Riot
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on August 3, 1919. During the riot, 38 people died (23 black and ...
erupts after a racial incident occurred on a
South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks ...
– Researchers at the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institu ...
, led by
biochemist
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Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter, and Nobel laureate noted as the co-discoverer of insulin and its therapeutic potential.
In 1923, Banting and J ...
, prove that the
hormone
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insulin
Insulin (, from Latin ''insula'', 'island') is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets encoded in humans by the ''INS'' gene. It is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body. It regulates the metabol ...
regulates
blood sugar
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.
*
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholi ...
– The
Geneva Convention of 1929 Geneva Convention (1929) may refer to:
* Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929. Its official name is the Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of W ...
, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
*
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*January ...
– The animated short ''
A Wild Hare
''A Wild Hare'' is a 1940 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short subject features Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, the latter making what is considered his first official appearance.Adamson, Joe (1990). ''Bugs Bunny ...
'' is released, introducing the character of
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Mer ...
.
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
–
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
:
Allied forces
successfully halt the final
Axis
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Mathematics
* Axis of rotation: see rotation around a fixed axis
* Axis (mathematics), a designator for a Cartesian-coordinat ...
advance into Egypt.
*
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January– February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the count ...
– In Vatican City, Rome,
canonization
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of ...
of
Catherine Labouré
Catherine Labouré (May 2, 1806 – December 31, 1876) was a French member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and a Marian visionary. She is believed to have relayed the request from the Blessed Virgin Mary to create the fam ...
, the saint whose apparitions of the Virgin Mary originated the worldwide diffusion of the Miraculous Medal.
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – ...
– Initial flight of the
de Havilland Comet
The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four ...
, the first jet-powered airliner.
*
1953 – Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the
Korean War
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, conflict = Korean War
, partof = the Cold War and the Korean conflict
, image = Korean War Montage 2.png
, image_size = 300px
, caption = Clockwise from top: ...
when the United States, China, and North Korea
sign an armistice agreement.
Syngman Rhee
Syngman Rhee (, ; 26 March 1875 – 19 July 1965) was a South Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960.
Rhee was also the first and last president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Ko ...
,
President of South Korea
The president of the Republic of Korea (), also known as the president of South Korea (often abbreviated to POTROK or POSK; ), is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of Korea. The president leads the State Council, and is ...
, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yiji ...
– The
Austrian State Treaty
The Austrian State Treaty (german: Österreichischer Staatsvertrag ) or Austrian Independence Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state. It was signed on 15 May 1955 in Vienna, at the Schloss Belvedere among the Allied occupying p ...
restores Austrian sovereignty.
* 1955 –
El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– The
Continental League
The Continental League of Professional Baseball Clubs (known as the Continental League or CL) was a proposed third major league for baseball in the United States and Canada. The league was announced in 1959 and scheduled to begin play in the 19 ...
is announced as baseball's "third major league" in the United States.
*
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
– The
Puijo observation tower is opened to the general public at
Puijo Hill in
Kuopio, Finland.
*
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
–
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
: Five thousand more American military advisers are sent to
South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...
to 21,000.
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom K ...
–
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual ...
: The
House of Representatives
House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...
Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of
impeachment
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I ...
(for obstruction of justice) against
President
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese f ...
Richard Nixon
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.
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Mayor of Jaffna
The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.
Mayors and chairmen
Notes
References
*
Sources
*
{{List of mayors in Sri Lanka
Jaffna
Jaffna ...
and former MP
Alfred Duraiappah
Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah (15 June 1926 – 27 July 1975) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician, Mayor of Jaffna and Member of Parliament.
Early life and family
Duraiappah was born on 15 June 1926. He was the son of an ice and aerated ...
is shot dead.
*
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major off ...
– While landing at
Chihuahua International Airport,
Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the
DC-9
The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced by the developer company as the Douglas DC-9 until August 1967 and then by McDonnell Douglas.
After ...
are killed.
*
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
–
Black July
Black July ( ta, கறுப்பு யூலை, translit=Kaṟuppu Yūlai; si, කළු ජූලිය, Kalu Juliya) was an anti- Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983. The pogrom was premeditated,T. Sabaratnam, Pirap ...
: Eighteen
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nati ...
political prisoners at the
Welikada
Welikada is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Demo ...
high security prison in
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
are
massacred by
Sinhalese
Sinhala may refer to:
* Something of or related to the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka
* Sinhalese people
* Sinhala language
Sinhala ( ; , ''siṁhala'', ), sometimes called Sinhalese (), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language prima ...
prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
*
1989
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– While attempting to land at
Tripoli International Airport
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in Libya,
Korean Air Flight 803
On 27 July 1989, Korean Air Flight 803, a DC-10 crashed while attempting to land in Tripoli, Libya. 75 of the 199 passengers and crew on board plus 4 people on the ground were killed in the crash. The crash was the deadliest aviation disaster t ...
crashes just short of the runway. Seventy-five of the 199 passengers and crew and four people on the ground are killed, in the second accident involving a
DC-10
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas.
The DC-10 was intended to succeed the Douglas DC-8, DC-8 for long-Range (aeronautics), range flights. It first flew on August 29, 1970; i ...
in less than two weeks, the first being
United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the Mc ...
.
*
1990
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– The
Supreme Soviet
The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USS ...
of the
Belarusian Soviet Republic
The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...
declares independence of
Belarus
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from the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
. Until
1996
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the day is celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus; after a
referendum
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held that year the celebration of
independence
Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the s ...
is moved to
June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, de ...
.
* 1990 – The
Jamaat al Muslimeen
The Jamaat al Muslimeen (, also transliterated as Jamaat-ul Muslimeen or Jama'at al-Muslimeen, ''"School of Muslims", "Group of Muslims", "The Muslim Group", "The Muslim Assembly", "The Muslim Society", "The Muslim Community"'') is a radical extr ...
attempt a ''coup d'état'' in
Trinidad and Tobago
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.
*
1995
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– The
Korean War Veterans Memorial
The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located in Washington, D.C.'s West Potomac Park, southeast of the Lincoln Memorial and just south of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. It memorializes those who served ...
is dedicated in
Washington, D.C.
)
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*
1996
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– In
Atlanta, United States
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, a
pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the
1996 Summer Olympics.
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
– About 50 people are killed in the
Si Zerrouk massacre in
Algeria
)
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, religi ...
.
*
2002
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–
Ukraine airshow disaster: A
Sukhoi Su-27
The Sukhoi Su-27 (russian: Сухой Су-27; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the large US fourth-generation ...
fighter crashes during an air show at
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukra ...
,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...
killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.
*
2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...
– After an incident during
STS-114
STS-114 was the first "Return to Flight" Space Shuttle mission following the Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster. ''Discovery'' launched at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC), July 26, 2005. The launch, 907 days (approx. 29 months) after the loss of ''Co ...
,
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedi ...
grounds the
Space Shuttle
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, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the
external fuel tank.
*
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...
– At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen
attack an Indian police station in
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
.
Births
Pre-1600
*
774
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–
Kūkai
Kūkai (; 27 July 774 – 22 April 835Kūkai was born in 774, the 5th year of the Hōki era; his exact date of birth was designated as the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the Japanese lunar calendar, some 400 years later, by the Shingon s ...
, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of
Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (d. 835)
*
1452
Year 1452 ( MCDLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* February – Alexăndrel retakes the throne of Moldavia, in his long struggle wi ...
–
Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of
Francesco I Sforza
Francesco I Sforza (; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death. In the 1420s, he participated in the War of L ...
(d. 1508)
* 1452 –
Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza (d. 1508)
*
1502
Year 1502 ( MDII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Gonçalo Coelho, sail into Guanabara B ...
–
Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer (d. 1571)
*
1578
__NOTOC__
Year 1578 ( MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 31 – Battle of Gembloux: Spanish forces under Don John of ...
–
Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond
Frances Stewart (née Howard), Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford (27 July 1578 – 8 October 1639)Strong (1998), pp. 61–62 was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to ...
(d. 1639)
1601–1900
*
1612
Events
January–June
* January 6 – Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden. He persuades the Riksdag of the Estates to grant the Swedish nobility the right and privilege to hold all higher offices of governme ...
–
Murad IV
Murad IV ( ota, مراد رابع, ''Murād-ı Rābiʿ''; tr, IV. Murad, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods. Murad IV was born in Con ...
,
Ottoman Sultan
The sultans of the Ottoman Empire ( tr, Osmanlı padişahları), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922. At its he ...
(d. 1640)
*
1625
Events
January–March
* January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
* February 3 – ...
–
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG PC FRS JP (27 July 162528 May 1672) was an English military officer, politician and diplomat, who fought for the Parliamentarian army during the First English Civil War and was an MP at various time ...
(d. 1672)
*
1667
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Aurangzeb, monarch of the Mughal Empire, orders the removal of Rao Karan Singh as Maharaja of the Bikaner State (part of the modern-day Rajasthan state of India) because of Karan's derelic ...
–
Johann Bernoulli
Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean or John; – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating ...
, Swiss mathematician and academic (d. 1748)
*
1733
Events
January–March
* January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX.
* January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, ''Orlando'' is performed for the ...
–
Jeremiah Dixon
Jeremiah Dixon FRS (27 July 1733 – 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.
Early life an ...
, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
*
1740
Events
January–March
* January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship '' Rooswijk'' are drowned, when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its sec ...
–
Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
*
1741
Events
January–March
* January 13 – Lanesborough, Massachusetts is created as a township.
*February 13 – Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, popularizes the term "the balance of power" in a speech ...
–
François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, French-English violinist and composer (d. 1808)
*
1752
In the British Empire, it was the only leap year with 355 days, as September 3–13 were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.
Events January–March
* January 1 – The British Empire (except Scotland, which h ...
–
Samuel Smith Samuel Smith may refer to:
In politics
*Samuel Smith (Connecticut politician) (1646–1735), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1691
*Samuel Smith (1754–1834), British Member ...
, American general and politician (d. 1839)
*
1768
Events
January–March
* January 9 – Philip Astley stages the first modern circus, with acrobats on galloping horses, in London.
* February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Re ...
–
Charlotte Corday
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known as Charlotte Corday (), was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who w ...
, French assassin of
Jean-Paul Marat
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(d. 1793)
* 1768 –
Joseph Anton Koch
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Biography
The Tyrolese painter was born ...
, Austrian painter (d. 1839)
*
1773
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as ''Amazing Grace'', at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Bucking ...
–
Jacob Aall
Jacob Aall (27 July 1773 – 4 August 1844) was a Norwegian politician, historian, landowner and government economist.
He was born the son of Nicolai Benjamin Aall (1739-1798), who was a merchant in Porsgrunn, Norway and owner of Ulefos Mano ...
, Norwegian economist and politician (d. 1844)
*
1777
Events
January–March
* January 2 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of the Assunpink Creek: American general George Washington's army repulses a British attack by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, in a seco ...
–
Thomas Campbell, Scottish-French poet and academic (d. 1844)
* 1777 –
Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, English general (d. 1853)
*
1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in E ...
–
Mauro Giuliani
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (27 July 1781 – 8 May 1829) was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century.
Biography
Although born in Bisceglie, Giuliani's center ...
, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1828)
*
1784
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea.
* January 14 – The Congress of the United States ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Bri ...
–
Denis Davydov
Denis Vasilyevich Davydov ( rus, Дени́с Васи́льевич Давы́дов, p=dʲɪˈnʲis vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪdʑ dɐˈvɨdəf, a=Dyenis Vasilyevich Davydov.ru.vorb.oga; – ) was a Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who in ...
, Russian general and poet (d. 1839)
*
1812
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The ''Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch'' (the Austrian civil code) enters into force in the Austrian Empire.
* January 19 – Peninsular War: The French-held fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo is stor ...
–
Thomas Lanier Clingman
Thomas Lanier Clingman (July 27, 1812November 3, 1897), known as the "Prince of Politicians," was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, and U.S. senator from the state of North ...
, American general and politician (d. 1897)
*
1818
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Battle of Koregaon: Troops of the British East India Company score a decisive victory over the Maratha Empire.
** Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'' is published anonymously in London.
* January 2 – ...
–
Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (d. 1902)
*
1824
May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Ninth Symphony
Events
January–March
* January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, with only one vote against ...
–
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Alexandre Dumas (; 27 July 1824 – 27 November 1895) was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel '' La Dame aux Camélias'' (''The Lady of the Camellias''), published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's ...
, French novelist and playwright (d. 1895)
*
1833
Events January–March
* January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon t ...
–
Thomas George Bonney
Thomas George Bonney (27 July 1833 – 10 December 1923) was an English geologist, president of the Geological Society of London.
Career
Bonney was born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Bonney, headm ...
, English geologist, mountaineer, and academic (d. 1923)
*
1834
Events
January–March
* January – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is chartered in Wilmington, North Carolina.
* January 1 – Zollverein (Germany): Customs charges are abolished at borders within its member states.
* January ...
–
Miguel Grau Seminario
Miguel María Grau Seminario (27 July 1834 – 8 October 1879) was the most renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the naval battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). He was known as ''el Caballero de los Mares'' (Spa ...
, Peruvian admiral (d. 1879)
*
1835
Events
January–March
* January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist.
* January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history ...
–
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (; 27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906, ...
, Italian poet and educator,
Nobel Prize
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laureate (d. 1907)
*
1848
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the poli ...
–
Loránd Eötvös
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or Loránd Eötvös, , '' hu, vásárosnaményi báró Eötvös Loránd Ágoston''; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicis ...
, Hungarian physicist and politician,
Minister of Education of Hungary The Minister of Human Capacities of Hungary ( hu, Magyarország emberierőforrás-minisztere) is a member of the Hungarian cabinet and the head of the Ministry of Human Capacities. The current minister of human capacities is Miklós Kásler.
This ...
(d. 1919)
* 1848 –
Friedrich Ernst Dorn
Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.
Life and work
Dorn was born in Guttstadt (Dobre Miasto), P ...
, German physicist (d.1916)
*
1853
Events
January–March
* January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida.
* January 8 – Taiping Re ...
–
Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, ua, Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Ukrainian-born ...
, Ukrainian journalist, author, and activist (d. 1921)
* 1853 –
Elizabeth Plankinton
Elizabeth Ann or Anne Plankinton (July 27, 1853 – 1923) was an American philanthropist in the early 20th century, the daughter of Milwaukee businessman John Plankinton. She was also known as "Miss Lizzie" and the people of Milwaukee called ...
, American philanthropist (d. 1923)
*
1854
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''.
* January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born.
* January 9 – The Te ...
–
Takahashi Korekiyo
Viscount was a Japanese politician who served as a member of the House of Peers, as Prime Minister of Japan from 1921 to 1922, and as the head of the Bank of Japan and Ministry of Finance.
Takahashi made many contributions to Japan's developm ...
, Japanese accountant and politician, 20th
Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan ( Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of Stat ...
(d. 1936)
*
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* J ...
–
José Celso Barbosa
José Celso Barbosa Alcala (July 27, 1857 – September 21, 1921) was a Puerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader. Known as the father of the statehood movement in Puerto Rico, Barbosa was the first Puerto Rican, and one of th ...
, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and politician (d. 1921)
* 1857 –
Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous t ...
, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist (d.1934)
*
1858
Events
January–March
* January –
**Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president.
** William I of Prussia becomes regent ...
–
George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (d. 1938)
*
1866
Events January–March
* January 1
** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee.
** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine ''The Liberator'' is published.
* January 6 – Ottoman troo ...
–
António José de Almeida
António José de Almeida, GCTE, GCA, GCC, GCSE (; 27 July 1866 – 31 October 1929), was a Portuguese politician who served as the sixth president of Portugal from 1919 to 1923.
Early career
Born in Penacova to José António de Almeida ...
, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th
President of Portugal
The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic ( pt, Presidente da República Portuguesa, ), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal.
The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, an ...
(d. 1929)
*
1867
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
–
Enrique Granados
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados y Campiña (27 July 1867 – 24 March 1916), commonly known as Enric Granados in Catalan or Enrique Granados in Spanish, was a composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain. ...
, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1916)
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the B ...
–
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. ...
, French-born British writer and historian (d. 1953)
*
1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts o ...
–
Stanislav Binički, Serbian composer, conductor, and pedagogue. (d. 1942)
*
1879
Events January–March
* January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War.
* January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
* Janu ...
–
Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (d. 1927)
*
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great S ...
–
Ernő Dohnányi
Ernő or Erno is a Finnish and Hungarian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Ernő Balogh (1897-1989), Hungarian pianist, composer, editor, and educator
* Ernő Bánk (1883-1962), Hungarian painter and teacher
*Ernő B� ...
, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
*
1881 –
Hans Fischer
Hans Fischer (; 27 July 1881 – 31 March 1945) was a German organic chemistry, organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for hi ...
, German chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfre ...
laureate (d. 1945)
*
1882 –
Geoffrey de Havilland
Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. The aircraft company he founded produced the Mosquito, which has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built, ...
, English pilot and engineer, founded the
de Havilland Aircraft Company
The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited () was a British aviation manufacturer established in late 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome Edgware on the outskirts of north London. Operations were later moved to Hatfield in He ...
(d. 1965)
*
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
–
Ernst May
Ernst May (27 July 1886 – 11 September 1970) was a German architect and city planner.
May successfully applied urban design techniques to the city of Frankfurt am Main during the Weimar Republic period, and in 1930 less successfully expor ...
, German architect and urban planner (d. 1970)
*
1889
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in th ...
–
Vera Karalli
Vera Alexeyevna Karalli (russian: Вера Алексеевна Каралли; 27 July 1889 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress during the early years of the 20th century.
Early life and ca ...
, Russian ballerina, choreographer, and actress (d. 1972)
*
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship '' ...
–
Benjamin Miessner
Benjamin Franklin Miessner (July 27, 1890 – March 25, 1976) was an American radio engineer and inventor. He is most known for his electronic organ, electronic piano, and other musical instruments. He was the inventor of the Cat's whisker detect ...
, American radio engineer and inventor (d. 1976)
*
1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship '' ...
–
Armas Taipale
Armas Rudolf Taipale (27 July 1890 – 9 November 1976) was a Finnish athlete. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics
The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V ol ...
, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1976)
*
1891
Events
January–March
* January 1
** Paying of old age pensions begins in Germany.
** A strike of 500 Hungarian steel workers occurs; 3,000 men are out of work as a consequence.
**Germany takes formal possession of its new Africa ...
–
Jacob van der Hoeden, Dutch-Israeli veterinarian and academic (d. 1968)
*
1893
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.
* Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson.
* January 6 – Th ...
–
Ugo Agostoni
Ugo Agostoni (27 July 1893 – 26 September 1941) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. Agostoni was professional from 1911 to 1924 during which time he won the Giro dell'Emilia, a stage in the 1912 Giro d'Italia while he was riding fo ...
, Italian cyclist (d. 1941)
*
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
–
Mientje Kling, Dutch actress (d. 1966)
*
1896
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
–
Robert George, Scottish air marshal and politician, 24th
Governor of South Australia
The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the Monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III. The governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the governor-gen ...
(d. 1967)
* 1896 –
Henri Longchambon, French lawyer and politician (d. 1969)
*
1899
Events January 1899
* January 1
** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City.
* January 2 –
**Bolivia sets up a ...
–
Percy Hornibrook
Percival Mitchell Hornibrook (27 July 1899 – 25 August 1976) was an Australian cricketer who played in six Test matches from 1929 to 1930.
Career
Hornibrook made his first class debut in 1919–20 against Victoria, taking four wickets.
In ...
, Australian cricketer (d. 1976)
1901–present
*
1902
Events
January
* January 1
** The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's ...
–
Yaroslav Halan
''
, pseudonym = Comrade Yaga, Volodymyr Rosovych, Ihor Semeniuk
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Dynów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland)
, death_date =
, death_place = Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
, resting_place ...
, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (d. 1949)
*
1903
Events January
* January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
* January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
–
Nikolay Cherkasov
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947).
Career
He was born in Saint Petersburg (late ...
, Russian actor (d. 1966)
* 1903 –
Michail Stasinopoulos
Michail Stasinopoulos ( el, Μιχαήλ Στασινόπουλος; 27 July 1903 – 31 October 2002) was a Greek jurist and politician who served as President of Greece from 18 December 1974 to 19 July 1975. A member of New Democracy, he was the ...
, Greek jurist and politician,
President of Greece
The president of Greece, officially the President of the Hellenic Republic ( el, Πρόεδρος της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας, Próedros tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), commonly referred to in Greek as the President of the Rep ...
(d. 2002)
* 1903 –
Mārtiņš Zīverts
Mārtiņš Zīverts (27 July 1903 in Mežmuiža, Vilce parish – 4 October 1990) was a Latvian playwright.
Biography
Zīverts was born in Mežmuiža, Courland Governorate (now Vilce parish, Jelgava municipality, Latvia). He studied philos ...
, Latvian playwright (d. 1990)
*
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
* ...
–
Lyudmila Rudenko
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (russian: Людми́ла Влади́мировна Руде́нко, uk, Людмила Володимирівна Руденко; 27 July 1904 – 4 March 1986) was a Soviet chess player and the second women' ...
, Soviet chess player (d. 1986)
*
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is ...
–
Leo Durocher
Leo Ernest Durocher (French spelling Léo Ernest Durocher) (; July 27, 1905 – October 7, 1991), nicknamed "Leo the Lip" and "Lippy", was an American professional baseball player, manager and coach. He played in Major League Baseball as an infie ...
, American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)
*
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, a ...
–
Jerzy Giedroyc, Polish author and activist (d. 2000)
* 1906 –
Herbert Jasper
Herbert Henri Jasper (July 27, 1906 – March 11, 1999) was a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
Born in La Grande, Oregon, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and received his PhD in psychology f ...
, Canadian psychologist and neurologist (d. 1999)
*
1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Moment magnitude scale, Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship French cruiser Jean Bart ( ...
–
Ross Alexander, American stage and film actor (d. 1937)
* 1907 –
Carl McClellan Hill
Carl McClellan Hill (July 27, 1907, Norfolk, Virginia – April 4, 1995, Hampton, Virginia) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of Kentucky State University from 1962 to 1975, and as the 11th president of H ...
, American educator and academic administrator (d. 1995)
* 1907 –
Irene Fischer
Irene Kaminka Fischer (born July 27, 1907 in Vienna, Austria, died October 22, 2009 in Boston) was an Austrian-American mathematician and geodesist. She was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Geophys ...
, Austrian-American geodesist and mathematician (d. 2009)
*
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 4 ...
–
Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1996)
*
1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas ''Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York Ci ...
–
Julien Gracq
Julien Gracq (; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French ''département'' of Maine-et-Loire) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were note ...
, French author and critic (d. 2007)
* 1910 –
Lupita Tovar
Guadalupe Natalia Tovar (27 July 1910 – 12 November 2016), known professionally as Lupita Tovar, was a Mexican-born American actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of ''Drácula'', filmed in Los Angeles by ...
, Mexican-American actress (d. 2016)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* Ja ...
–
Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (d. 1981)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Vernon Elliott, English
bassoon player, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
*
1913
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...
– George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2000)
*1914 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (d. 1969)
*1915 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (d. 1982)
* 1915 – Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (d. 1961)
*1916 – Elizabeth Hardwick (writer), Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (d. 2007)
* 1916 – Skippy Williams, American saxophonist and arranger (d. 1994)
* 1916 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
*1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist and educator (d. 1984)
*1920 – Henry D. "Homer" Haynes, American comedian and musician (d. 1971)
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks ...
– Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport (d. 2013)
* 1921 – Émile Genest, Canadian-American actor (d. 2003)
*1922 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986)
* 1922 – Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer
*1923 – Mas Oyama, South Korean-Japanese martial artist (d. 1994)
*1924 – Vincent Canby, American historian and critic (d. 2000)
* 1924 – Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor (d. 1989)
*1927 – Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (d. 2015)
* 1927 – Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter (d. 2007)
* 1927 – Will Jordan, American comedian and actor (d. 2018)
* 1927 – C. Rajadurai, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Batticaloa
* 1927 – John Seigenthaler, American journalist and academic (d. 2014)
*1928 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel and pilot (d. 2022)
*
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholi ...
– Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and philosopher (d. 2007)
* 1929 – Harvey Fuqua, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
* 1929 – Jack Higgins, English author and academic (d. 2022)
* 1929 – Marc Wilkinson, French-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2022)
*1930 – Joy Whitby, English director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1930 – Shirley Williams, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Education (d. 2021)
*1931 – Khieu Samphan, Cambodian academic and politician, 28th List of Prime Ministers of Cambodia, Prime Minister of Cambodia
* 1931 – Jerry Van Dyke, American actor (d. 2018)
*1932 – Forest Able, American basketball player
* 1932 – Diane Webber, American model, dancer and actress (d. 2008)
*1933 – Nick Reynolds, American singer and bongo player (d. 2008)
* 1933 – Ted Whitten, Australian football player and journalist (d. 1995)
*1935 – Hillar Kärner, Estonian chess player (d. 2017)
* 1935 – Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
*1936 – J. Robert Hooper, American businessman and politician (d. 2008)
*1937 – Anna Dawson, English actress and singer
* 1937 – Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
* 1937 – Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer (d. 1990)
*1938 – Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (d. 2008)
*1939 – William Eggleston, American photographer and academic
* 1939 – Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet and academic
* 1939 – Paulo Silvino, Brazilian comedian, composer and actor (d. 2017)
*
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
*January ...
– Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
*1941 – Christian Boesch, Austrian opera singer
* 1941 – Johannes Fritsch, German viola player and composer (d. 2010)
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
– Édith Butler, Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1942 – Bobbie Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1942 – John Pleshette, American actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1942 – Dennis Ralston, American tennis player (d. 2020)
*1943 – Jeremy Greenstock, English diplomat, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, British Ambassador to the United Nations
*1944 – Jean-Marie Leblanc, French cyclist and journalist
* 1944 – Barbara Thompson (musician), Barbara Thomson, English saxophonist and composer (d. 2022)
*1946 – Peter Reading, English poet and author (d. 2011)
*
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January– February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the count ...
– Kazuyoshi Miura (businessman), Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (d. 2008)
* 1947 – Giora Spiegel, Israeli footballer and coach
* 1947 – Betty Thomas, American actress, director, and producer
*1948 – Peggy Fleming, American figure skater and sportscaster
* 1948 – James Munby, English lawyer and judge
* 1948 – Henny Vrienten, Dutch singer-songwriter and bass player
*
1949
Events
January
* January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022.
* January 2 – ...
– Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (d. 2010)
* 1949 – André Dupont, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1949 – Rory Macdonald (musician), Rory MacDonald, Scottish singer-songwriter and bass player
* 1949 – Maureen McGovern, American singer and actress
* 1949 – Robert Rankin, English author and illustrator
*1950 – Simon Jones (actor), Simon Jones, English actor
*1951 – Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish lawyer and politician, Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs
* 1951 – Bob Diamond (banker), Bob Diamond, American-English banker and businessman
* 1951 – Rolf Thung, Dutch tennis player
*1952 – Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (d. 2014)
* 1952 – Roxanne Hart, American actress
*
1953 – Chung Dong-young, South Korean journalist and politician, 31st Ministry of Unification, South Korean Minister of Unification
* 1953 – Yahoo Serious, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
*1954 – Philippe Alliot, French race car driver and sportscaster
* 1954 – G. S. Bali, Indian lawyer and politician
* 1954 – Mark Stanway, English keyboard player
* 1954 – Ricardo Uceda, Peruvian journalist and author
*
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yiji ...
– Cat Bauer, American journalist, author, and playwright
* 1955 – Allan Border, Australian cricketer and coach
* 1955 – John Howell (politician), John Howell, English journalist and politician
* 1955 – Bobby Rondinelli, American drummer
*1956 – Carol Leifer, American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer
*1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian, actor, and producer
*1958 – Christopher Dean, English figure skater and choreographer
* 1958 – Kimmo Hakola, Finnish composer
*
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
– Joe DeSa, American baseball player (d. 1986)
* 1959 – Hugh Green (American football), Hugh Green, American football player
* 1959 – Yiannos Papantoniou, French-Greek economist and politician, Minister for National Defence (Greece), Greek Minister of National Defence
*1960 – Jo Durie, English tennis player and sportscaster
* 1960 – Conway Savage, Australian singer-songwriter and keyboard player (d. 2018)
* 1960 – Emily Thornberry, English lawyer and politician
*1961 – Ed Orgeron, American football coach
*1962 – Neil Brooks, Australian swimmer
* 1962 – Karl Mueller (rock musician), Karl Mueller, American bass player (d. 2005)
*
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
– Donnie Yen, Chinese-Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
*
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
– Rex Brown, American bass player and songwriter
*1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer
*1966 – Steve Tilson, English footballer and manager
*1967 – Rahul Bose, Indian journalist, actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1967 – Juliana Hatfield, American singer-songwriter and musician
* 1967 – Hans Mathisen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
* 1967 – Neil Smith (cricketer, born 1967), Neil Smith, English cricketer
* 1967 – Craig Wolanin, American ice hockey player
*1968 – Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Italian actress and producer
* 1968 – Tom Goodwin, American baseball player and coach
* 1968 – Sabina Jeschke, Swedish-German engineer and academic
* 1968 – Julian McMahon, Australian actor and producer
* 1968 – Ricardo Rosset, Brazilian race car driver
*1969 – Triple H, American wrestler and actor
* 1969 – Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer and coach
*1970 – Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor and producer
* 1970 – David Davies (Welsh politician), David Davies, English-Welsh politician
*1971 – Matthew Johns, Australian rugby league player, sportscaster and television host
* 1971 – Anna Menconi, Italian Paralympic archer
*1972 – Clint Robinson (canoeist), Clint Robinson, Australian kayaker
* 1972 – Maya Rudolph, American actress
* 1972 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, Malaysian surgeon and astronaut
*1973 – Cassandra Clare, American journalist and author
* 1973 – Erik Nys, Belgian long jumper
* 1973 – Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league player and coach
*
1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom K ...
– Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer, actor, and producer
* 1974 – Pete Yorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
– Serkan Çeliköz, Turkish keyboard player and songwriter
* 1975 – Shea Hillenbrand, American baseball player
* 1975 – Fred Mascherino, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1975 – Alessandro Pistone, Italian footballer
* 1975 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
*1976 – Demis Hassabis, English computer scientist and academic
* 1976 – Scott Mason (cricketer), Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
*1977 – Foo Swee Chin, Singaporean illustrator
* 1977 – Björn Dreyer (footballer born 1977), Björn Dreyer, German footballer
* 1977 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
*1978 – Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Irish hurler and manager
*1979 – Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician, feminist, and human rights activist (d. 2018)
* 1979 – Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
* 1979 – Sidney Govou, French footballer
* 1979 – Shannon Moore, American wrestler and singer
*1980 – Allan Davis (cyclist), Allan Davis, Australian cyclist
* 1980 – Wesley Gonzales, Filipino basketball player
*
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major off ...
– Susan King Borchardt, American basketball player
* 1981 – Collins Obuya, Kenyan cricketer
* 1981 – Dash Snow, American painter and photographer (d. 2009)
* 1981 – Christopher Weselek, German rugby player
*1982 – Neil Harbisson, English-Catalan painter, composer, and activist
*
1983
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...
– Lorik Cana, Albanian footballer
* 1983 – Martijn Maaskant, Dutch cyclist
* 1983 – Goran Pandev, Macedonian footballer
* 1983 – Soccor Velho, Indian footballer (d. 2013)
*1984 – Antoine Bethea, American football player
* 1984 – Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Japanese baseball player
* 1984 – Max Scherzer, American baseball player
* 1984 – Taylor Schilling, American actress
* 1984 – Kenny Wormald, American actor, dancer, and choreographer
*1985 – Husain Abdullah, American football player
* 1985 – Matteo Pratichetti, Italian rugby player
* 1985 – Ajmal Shahzad, English cricketer
*1986 – DeMarre Carroll, American basketball player
* 1986 – Ryan Flaherty, American baseball player
* 1986 – Ryan Griffen, Australian footballer
*1987 – Jacoby Ford, American football player
* 1987 – Marek Hamšík, Slovak footballer
* 1987 – Jordan Hill (basketball), Jordan Hill, American basketball player
* 1987 – Sarah Parsons, American ice hockey player
*1988 – Adam Biddle (soccer), Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
* 1988 – Yoervis Medina, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1988 – Ryan Tannehill, American football player
*
1989
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ru ...
– Maya Ali (actress), Maya Ali, Pakistani actress
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Nick Hogan, American race car driver and actor
* 1990 – Paolo Hurtado, Peruvian footballer
* 1990 – Cheyenne Kimball, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1990 – Stephen Li-Chung Kuo, Taiwanese-American figure skater
* 1990 – Kriti Sanon, Indian actress
*1991 – Wandy Peralta, Dominican baseball player
*1993 – Reagan Campbell-Gillard, Australian rugby league player
* 1993 – Max Power (footballer), Max Power, English footballer
* 1993 – Jordan Spieth, American golfer
* 2003 – Elvina Kalieva, American tennis player
Deaths
Pre-1600
* 903 – Abdallah II of Ifriqiya, Aghlabid emir
* 959 – Chai Rong, emperor of Later Zhou
*1144 – Salomea of Berg, High Duchess consort of Poland
*1061 – Pope Nicholas II, Nicholas II, pope of the Catholic Church
*1101 – Conrad II of Italy, Conrad II, king of Italy (b. 1074)
* 1101 – Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester (b. c. 1047)
*1158 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes, Geoffrey VI, Count of Anjou (b. 1134)
*1276 – James I of Aragon (b. 1208)
*1365 – Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1339)
*1382 – Joanna I of Naples (b. 1326)
*1469 – William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1469), William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (b. 1423)
1601–1900
*1656 – Salomo Glassius, German theologian and critic (b. 1593)
*1675 – Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French general (b. 1611)
*
1689
Events
January–March
* January 22 (January 12, 1688 O.S.) – Glorious Revolution in England: The Convention Parliament is convened to determine if King James II of England, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, vacated ...
– John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee, Scottish general (b. c. 1648)
*1759 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1698)
*1770 – Robert Dinwiddie, Scottish merchant and politician, List of colonial governors of Virginia, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1693)
*1841 – Mikhail Lermontov, Russian poet and painter (b. 1814)
*1844 – John Dalton, English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (b. 1776)
*1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813)
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
– Jean-Joseph Dassy, French painter and lithographer (b. 1791)
*1875 – Aleksander Kunileid, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1845)
*1876 – Albertus van Raalte, Dutch-born American minister and author (b. 1811)
*1883 – Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General (b. 1813)
1901–present
*1916 – Charles Fryatt, English captain (b. 1872)
* 1916 – William Jonas, English footballer (d. 1890)
*
1917
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary For ...
– Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks ...
– Myrddin Fardd, Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar (b. 1836)
*1924 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
*1931 – Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)
*1938 – Tom Crean (explorer), Tom Crean, Irish seaman and explorer (b. 1877)
*1941 – Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)
*
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
– Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
*1946 – Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
*1948 – Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1898)
* 1948 – Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
*1951 – Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1891)
*1958 – Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (b. 1893)
*1960 – Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic (b. 1890)
*1962 – Richard Aldington, English poet and author (b. 1892)
* 1962 – James H. Kindelberger, American pilot and businessman (b. 1895)
*
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Co ...
– Hooks Dauss, American baseball player (b. 1889)
* 1963 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (b. 1877)
*
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
– Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (b. 1898)
*1965 – Daniel-Rops, French historian and author (b. 1901)
*1968 – Babe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)
*1970 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
*1971 – Charlie Tully, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1924)
*
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
–
Alfred Duraiappah
Alfred Thangarajah Duraiappah (15 June 1926 – 27 July 1975) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician, Mayor of Jaffna and Member of Parliament.
Early life and family
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, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (d. 1926)
*1978 – Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
* 1978 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1907)
*1980 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iranian Shah (b. 1919)
*
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major off ...
– William Wyler, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
* 1981 – Elizabeth Rona, Hungarian American nuclear chemist (b. 1890)
*1984 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
*1985 – Smoky Joe Wood, American baseball player and coach (b. 1889)
*1987 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1903)
*1988 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (b. 1901)
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
– Bobby Day, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1928)
* 1990 – René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (b. 1912)
*1991 – John Friedrich (fraudster), John Friedrich, German-Australian engineer and conman (b. 1950)
*1992 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer and educator (b. 1911)
* 1992 – Tzeni Karezi, Greek actress and screenwriter
*1993 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
*1994 – Kevin Carter, South African photographer and journalist (b. 1960)
*
1995
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...
– Melih Esenbel, Turkish politician and diplomat, 20th List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (Turkey), Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
* 1995 – Rick Ferrell, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
* 1995 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (b. 1907)
*1998 – Binnie Barnes, English-American actress (b. 1903)
*1999 – Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (b. 1912)
* 1999 – Harry Edison, American trumpet player (b. 1915)
*2000 – Gordon Solie, American sportscaster (b. 1929)
*2001 – Rhonda Sing, Canadian wrestler (b. 1961)
* 2001 – Leon Wilkeson, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1952)
*2003 – Vance Hartke, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
* 2003 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, comedian, television personality, and businessman (b. 1903)
*
2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...
– Al Held, American painter and academic (b. 1928)
* 2005 – Marten Toonder, Dutch author and illustrator (b. 1912)
*2006 – Maryann Mahaffey, American academic and politician (b. 1925)
*2007 – James Oyebola, Nigerian-English boxer (b. 1961)
*2008 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
* 2008 – Horst Stein, German-born Swiss conductor (b. 1928)
* 2008 – Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican businessman (b. 1923)
*2010 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949)
* 2010 – Jack Tatum, American football player (b. 1948)
*2012 – Norman Alden, American actor (b. 1924)
* 2012 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (b. 1917)
* 2012 – Darryl Cotton, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1949)
* 2012 – Geoffrey Hughes (actor), Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (b. 1944)
* 2012 – Tony Martin (American singer), Tony Martin, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
* 2012 – Jack Taylor (referee), Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (b. 1930)
*2013 – Fernando Alonso (dancer), Fernando Alonso, Cuban dancer, co-founded the Cuban National Ballet (b. 1914)
* 2013 – Lindy Boggs, American politician and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See (b. 1916)
* 2013 – Bud Day, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)
* 2013 – Kidd Kraddick, American radio host (b. 1959)
* 2013 – Ilya Segalovich, Russian businessman, co-founded Yandex (b. 1964)
*2014 – Richard Bolt (RNZAF officer), Richard Bolt, New Zealand air marshal and pilot (b. 1923)
* 2014 – George Freese, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
* 2014 – Wallace Jones, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
* 2014 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
* 2014 – Paul Schell, American lawyer and politician, 50th List of mayors of Seattle, Mayor of Seattle (b. 1937)
*
2015
File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the April ...
– Rickey Grundy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
* 2015 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (b. 1931)
* 2015 – Samuel Pisar, Polish-born American lawyer and author (b. 1929)
* 2015 – Anthony Shaw (British Army officer), Anthony Shaw, English general (b. 1930)
*2016 – Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (b.1928)
* 2016 – James Alan McPherson, American short story writer and essayist (b. 1943)
* 2016 – Jerry Doyle, American actor and talk show host (b. 1956)
* 2016 – Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Ministry of Defence (Netherlands), Minister of Defence), Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1915)
*2017 – Sam Shepard, American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director (b.1943)
*2018 – Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist
*2022 – Tony Dow, American actor, film producer, director, and sculptor (b. 1945)
Holidays and observances
*Christian Calendar of saints, feast day:
**Arethas (martyr), Arethas (Western Christianity)
**Aurelius and Natalia and companions of the Martyrs of Córdoba.
**Maurus, Pantalemon and Sergius, Maurus, Pantalemon, and Sergius
**Saint Pantaleon, Pantaleon
**Seven Sleepers, Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (Roman Martyrology)
***National Sleepy Head Day (Finland)
**Theobald of Marly
**Titus Brandsma, Carmelites, ''O.Carm.''
**July 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (North Korea)
*Iglesia ni Cristo Day (Philippines, the Philippines)
*José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)
*Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers Day (
Vietnam
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Days of the year
July