Day In History
This Day in History
Today: January 22, 2026
613
Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.[1]
871
Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.[2]
1506
The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.[3]
1517
The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.[4]
1555
The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.
1689
The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
1808
The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
1824
The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1849
Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1863
The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
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