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The following events took place on January 13. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 53 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 532

  Nika riots in Constantinople.
• 888

  Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
• 1435

  Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
• 1547

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
• 1607

  The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
• 1666

  French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived in Dhaka and met Shaista Khan.
• 1793

  Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
• 1797

  French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
• 1815

  War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
• 1822

  The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
• 1830

  The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
• 1833

  United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina’s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
• 1840

  The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
• 1842

  Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
• 1847

  The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California.
• 1869

  National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
• 1893

  The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
• 1893

  U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
• 1895

  First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war’s opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
• 1898

  Émile Zola’s J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
• 1908

  The Rhoads Opera House Fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
• 1910

  The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
• 1913

  Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1915

  An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
• 1934

  The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union.
• 1935

  A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
• 1939

  The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
• 1942

  Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• 1942

  World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
• 1951

  First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins, which will end in a major victory for France.

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