January 8

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January 8 is the 8th dayof the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 357 days remaining until the end of the year (358 in leap years).

[edit] Events

• 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.
• 1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
• 1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
• 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• 1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address address in New York City.
• 1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
• 1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
• 1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
• 1912 - African National Congress founded
• 1916 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.

[edit] Births

• 1583 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (d. 1643)
• 1601 - Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Spanish writer (d. 1658)
• 1628 - François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (d. 1695)
• 1632 - Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist (d. 1694)
• 1904 - Karl Brandt, German physician (d. 1948)

[edit] Deaths

• 482 - Saint Severinus of Noricum
• 1100 - Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
• 1107 - Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
• 1198 - Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106)
• 1324 - Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
• 1337 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
• 1464 - Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
• 1976 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)