TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, January 21. On this day in history: 1077 German King Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness

1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope 1525 The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptise each other in the home of Manz’s mother in Zurich, breaking a thousandyear tradition of church-state union

1542 English parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard

1664 Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army

1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), published in Boston 1720 Sweden and Prussia sign a peace treaty ending hostilities between them during the Great Northern War

1732 Russia & Persia sign Treaty of Riascha

1749 Verona Philharmonic Theatre destroyed by fire. Rebuilt 1754.

1789 1st American novel, WH Brown’s “Power of Sympathy” is published

1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty, dividing Poland.

1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason

1818 Keats writes his poem “On a Lock of Milton’s Hair”

1821 Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die

1830 In Portsmouth, Ohio, African Americans forcibly deported

1846 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ newspaper “The Daily News”

1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years

1864 The Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Wars begins

1874 Franz Grillparzer’s “Libussa” premieres in Vienna 1879 Henrik Ibsen’s “Et Dukkehjem” premieres in Copenhagen

1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains in Memphis, Tennessee 1887 Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city