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The following events took place on January 3. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 49 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 1521

  Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
• 1653

  By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
• 1749

  Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
• 1749

  The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
• 1777

  American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
• 1815

  Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
• 1823

  Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
• 1848

  Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
• 1868

  Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
• 1870

  Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
• 1885

  Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
• 1888

  The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
• 1911

  A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
• 1919

  At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
• 1925

  Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
• 1932

  Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
• 1933

  Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
• 1938

  The March of Dimes is established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• 1944

  World War II: Top Ace Major Greg “Pappy” Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
• 1945

  World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
• 1946

  Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
• 1947

  Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
• 1949

  The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
• 1953

  Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
• 1956

  A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
• 1957

  The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
• 1958

  The West Indies Federation is formed.
• 1959

  Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
• 1959

  Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.

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