TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Tuesday, January 14. On this day in history: 378 General Siyaj K’ak’, a Mayan war lord, conquers Tikal and increases the domain of Teotihuacan

1129 Formal approval of the Order of Templars at the Council of Troyes.

1301 Andrew III of Hungary (1290-1301) dies at 50, ending the Arpad dynasty in Hungary 1343 Arnost of Pardubice becomes the first Archbishop of Prague (and the last bishop of Prague)

1641 United East Indian Company conquers city of Malacca, 7,000 killed

1659 Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish 1690 The musical instrument, the clarinet is invented in Nürnberg, Germany

1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting “witches”

1717 German mob leader “Sjako” sentenced to death in Amsterdam

1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne

1739 Britain and Spain sign 2nd Convention of Pardo

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army leaves Glasgow

1761 Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An estimated 60,000–70,000 were killed in the fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards.

1784 US Revolutionary War ends with the US Congress of the Confederation ratifying the Treaty of Paris

1785 Amadeus Mozart completes his Dissonanzenquartett / Dissonance quartet (opus 10) 1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife 1814 King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel

1898 Australian cricketer Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground)

1900 Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca premieres in Rome