January 7

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1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1598 - Boris Godunov seizes the throne of Russia.
1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 - Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the Galilean moons.
1797 - The current flag of Italy is first used.
1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off the Chonos Archipelago.
1935 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
1942 - World War II: Siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 - World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1953 - President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb.
1959 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.

1355 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)
1502 - Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
1528 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (d. 1572)
1647 - Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1685 - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
1706 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1718 - Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)
1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (d. 1844)
1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)