This Month in History....

January 3

1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

January 4

1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage

January 6

1412 Birth of Joan of Arc, warrior maiden

January 7

1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French

January 8

794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island

January 10

1430 Order of the Guilder forms
1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain

January 12

1559 Elizabeth I "Gloriana" Crowned Queen of England

January 15

1535 Henry VIII becomes head of the Church in England, to marry Anne Boleyn

January 16

1547 Ivan IV the Terrible crowned first tsar of Russia

January 18

1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru

January 20

1265 Parliament meets for the first time

January 21

1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade

January 26

66 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

January 28

1099 Crusaders begin siege of Hosn-el-Akrad, Syria
1393 "Bal des Ardents": Disastrous fire at a ball in Paris, four die, king loses his mind
1457 Birth of Henry Tudor, later Henry VII
1495 Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
1547 Edward VI (age 9) succeeds his father Henry VIII

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