January 4
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January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 361 days remaining until the end of the year (362 in leap years).
[edit] Events
- 46BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.
- 871 - Battle of Reading: Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
- 1490 - Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey.
- 1642 - King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
- 1698 - Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.
- 1717 - The Netherlands, England, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
- 1944 - World War II: The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
[edit] Births
- 1077 - Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100)
- 1334 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (d. 1383)
- 1581 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (d. 1656)
- 1643 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
- 1664 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
- 1672 - Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
- 1710 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (d. 1736)
- 1720 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer (d. 1774)
- 1785 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
- 1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor of braille[1] (d. 1852)
- 1813 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman shorthand) (d. 1897)
- 1832 - George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
[edit] Deaths
- 1066 - Edward the Confessor, pre-Norman conquest English king (b. ca. 1004) (disputed)
- 1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
- 1564 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
- 1584 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer (b. 1539)
- 1695 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
- 1752 - Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (b. 1704)
- 1962 - Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
- 1965 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
