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• 1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
• 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater.
• 1756 - English garrison imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• 1782 - The United States Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
• 1789 - Deputies of the French Third EstateIn France of the ancien regime and the age of the French Revolution, the term Third Estate tiers etat indicated the generality of people which were not part of the clergy (the First Estate) nor of the nobility (the Second Estate). From these terms came th took the Tennis Court OathJacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath. The Tennis Court Oath serment du jeu de paume was a pledge signed by 577 members of France's Third Estate on June 20, 1789. It was an early decisive step in starting the French Revolution. King Louis XVI had l
• 1819Events January 17 Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia January 29 Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore February 6 Formal treaty between Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles originates Singapore F - The US vessel Savannah arrives at LiverpoolFor alternate uses of "Liverpool" see Liverpool (disambiguation Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. Liverpool is governed by Liverpool City Council, one of five council. She is the first steam-propelled vessel to cross the Atlantic, most of the journey was made under sail.
• 1837Events January 10 DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana January 26 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U. State February 8 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate February 11 Americ - Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
• 1862Events January-March January 10 End of term for John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford. January 30 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. February 1 Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hy - Barbu CatargiuBarbu Catargiu was a conservative Romanian journalist and politician. He was the prime minister of Romania in 1862 until he was assassinated on June 20 of that year. Catargiu, Barbu. is assassinated.
• 1863 - West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
• 1877 - Alexander Graham Bell installs world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton Ontario.
• 1893 - Lizzie Borden is found innocent of murdering her stepmother and father.
• 1919 - 150 die at the Teatro Yaguez fire, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
• 1939 - Benny Goodman's Song School ends its radio series.
• 1948 - Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, debuts.
• 1956 - A Venezuelan Super-Constellation crashed in Atlantic Ocean off Ashbury Park, New Jersey killing 74 people
• 1960 - Independence of Mali and Senegal.
• 1963 - "Hotline" established between Soviet Union and United States.
• 1966 - Canada sells 336 million bushels of wheat to Soviet Union.
• 1969 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas becomes Prime Minister of France
• 1977 - Oil begins to flow through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
• 1980 - Roberto Duran starts his classic boxing trilogy with Sugar Ray Leonard by defeating him in Canada by a decision in 15 rounds, to gain the WBC world Welterweight championship.
• 1983 - LZW patent filed in USA.
• 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered.
• 1991 - German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
• 2001 - Pervez Musharraf becomes president of Pakistan
• 2001 - Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and admits to the crime. She would be sentenced to life in prison.
• 2003 - LZW patent expires in USA.
• 2003 - Bounce premieres at the Goodman Theatre.
• 2003 - Formation of Wikimedia Foundation announced.