1. In 379, Theodosius was installed as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire by Emperor Gratian.

2. In 973, Pope Benedictus VI was elected.

3. In 1363, English King Edward III introduced his sumptuary laws, restricting what people ate and wore to preserve social status (largely ignored).

4. In 1419, the French city of Rouen surrendered to Henry V in the Hundred Years' War.

5. In 1492, supplies to build the Portuguese trading post Castelo de São Jorge da Mina (Elmina Castle) arrived on the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the first European building south of the Sahara.

6. In 1493, France ceded Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain by the Treaty of Barcelona.

7. In 1511, the Italian city of Mirandola surrendered to the French.

8. In 1520, in the Battle of Bogesund, Christian II of Denmark defeated the Regent of Sweden, Sten Sture the Younger, who was mortally wounded.

9. In 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was executed in the Tower of London for treason.

10. In 1607, San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed; it is the oldest church in the Philippines.

11. In 1668, French King Louis XIV and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I signed a secret partition treaty, dividing the Spanish Empire if Charles II of Spain died without an heir.

12. In 1714, Richard Steele published "Crisis" defending Hanoverian succession.

13. In 1746, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", Prince Charles Edward Stuart's troops occupied Stirling, Scotland (OS = Jan 8).

14. In 1770, the Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) took place.

15. In 1785, the first manned balloon flight in Ireland occurred.

16. In 1795, the democratic revolution in Amsterdam ended the oligarchy.

17. In 1806, the United Kingdom re-occupied the Cape of Good Hope following victory in the Battle of Blaauwberg over the French vassal, the Batavian Republic. It established British rule in South Africa.

18. In 1808, Louis Napoleon signed the 1st Dutch aviation law.

19. In 1810, Cold Friday: the temperature at Portsmouth, New Hampshire dropped from 54 °F to minus 12 °F in one day with many frozen to death.

20. In 1812, in the Peninsular War: after a ten-day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, ordered British soldiers of the Light and Third Divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

21. In 1825, Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patented food storage in tin cans.

22. In 1829, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's tragic play "Faust, Part 1" premiered.

23. In 1839, Aden was conquered by the British East India Company.

24. In 1847, Mexican and indigenous Pueblo warriors killed territorial governor Charles Bent (47), and 5 others in a revolt against new American rulers in Taos, New Mexico Territory.

25. In 1853, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premiered in Rome.

26. In 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union (US Civil War).

27. In 1861, Mississippi troops took Fort Massachusetts and Ship Island (US Civil War).

28. In 1862, the Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) took place.

29. In 1863, General Mieroslawski was appointed dictator of Poland.

30. In 1865, the Union occupied Fort Anderson, North Carolina.

31. In 1871, the 1st Negro Lodge of US Masons was approved, New Jersey.

32. In 1883, the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began service at Roselle, New Jersey.

33. In 1884, Jules Massenet's opera "Manon" premiered in Paris.

34. In 1885, the Battle of Abu Kru (Battle of Gubat), Sudan: British desert column defeated Mahdist forces: 121 British and untold Mahdists killed.

35. In 1886, the Aurora Ski Club, the 1st in the US, was founded in Minnesota.

36. In 1893, Henrik Ibsen's play "The Master Builder" premiered in Berlin.

37. In 1898, Brown defeated Harvard 6-0 in the 1st intercollegiate hockey game.

38. In 1899, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was formed.

39. In 1903, the 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between the US and England took place.

40. In 1903, the French newspaper L'Auto announced a new 5-stage, long-distance bicycle race, "Tour de France".

41. In 1906, Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Und Pippa Tanzt!" premiered in Berlin.

42. In 1910, Germany and Bolivia ended their commerce and friendship treaty.

43. In 1913, Raymond Poincaré was installed as President of France.

44. In 1915, the neon tube sign was patented by George Claude.

45. In 1915, World War I: 4 people in Norfolk were killed in the 1st German zeppelin air raid attack on the United Kingdom.

46. In 1917, the Silvertown explosion: 73 died when a munitions factory in Essex exploded.

47. In 1918, the Finnish Civil War: the first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard took place.

48. In 1918, the Soviets disallowed a constitution assembly.

49. In 1919, national elections were held in Germany to form a national constituent assembly and draft a constitution.

50. In 1920, Alexandre Millerand formed the French government.