It happened today – this day in history – January 17
1377: Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. 1501: Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome
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It happened today – this day in history – January 16
550: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege by bribing the Isaurian garrison. 1362: A storm
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It happened today – this day in history – January 15
1412: Birth of Joan of Arc. 1535: Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England. 1552: France signs
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It happened today – this day in history – January 14
1690: The clarinet is invented in Nürnberg, Germany. 1724: King Philip V abdicates the Spanish throne. 1742: Astronomer Edmond Halley
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It happened today – this day in history – January 13
1099: Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria. 1404: The Act of Multipliers is passed by Parliament forbidding alchemists to use
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It happened today – this day in history – January 12
1528: Gustav I is crowned King of Sweden. 1723: George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ottone” premieres at the King’s Theatre, London.
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It happened today – this day in history – January 11
1693: The most powerful earthquake in Italian recorded history strikes Sicily and Southern Italy. 1787: Titania and Oberon, moons of
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It happened today – this day in history – January 10
49BC: Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war which would lead
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It happened today – this day in history – January 9
1493: First sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus. 1570: Ivan the Terrible kills 1,000-2,000 residents of Novgorod. 1718: France declares
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It happened today – this day in history – January 8
871: Ethelred I of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great defeat the invading Danish army at the Battle of
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