January 2

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January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 363 days remaining until the end of the year (364 in leap years).

[edit] Events

  1. 366 - Alamanni cross the frozen Rhine River in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
  2. 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
  3. 1492 - Reconquista: Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
  4. 1757 - The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
  5. 1788 - Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  6. 1791 - Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
  7. 1793 - Russia and Prussia partition Poland.
  8. 1818 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is formed.
  9. 1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
  10. 1871 - Amadeus I becomes King of Spain.
  11. 1941 - World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales.
  12. 1942 - World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces.

[edit] Births

  1. 1642 - Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1693)
  2. 1647 - Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist (d. 1676)
  3. 1713 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (d. 1803)
  4. 1719 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder (d. 1797)
  5. 1727 - James Wolfe, British general (d. 1759)
  6. 1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (d. 1857)
  7. 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888)
  8. 1827 - Peter Semenov of Tian Shan, Russian explorer (d. 1914)
  9. 1833 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
  10. 1918 - Willi Graf, member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group in Germany (d. 1943)

[edit] Deaths

  1. 1512 - Svante, Regent of Sweden (b. 1460)
  2. 1514 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (bc. 1460)
  3. 1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
  4. 1685 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (b. 1603)
  5. 1694 - Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)
  6. 1726 - Domenico Zipoli, Italian composer (b. 1688)
  7. 1892 - George Airy, British Astronomer Royal (b. 1801)
  8. 1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
  9. 1904 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (b. 1821)
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