This Day in History
Today: January 21, 2026
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Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa.[1]
1525
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.[2]
1535
Following the Affair of the Placards, the French king leads an anti-Protestant procession through Paris.[3][4]
1720
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.[5]
1749
The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.[6]
1774
Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1789
The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth by William Hill Brown, is printed in Boston.
1793
After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
1854
The RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life.[7]
1893
The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
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