Historical Events
- Jan 21 Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 6 Caspar Peucer, German reformer, born in Bautzen, Germany (d. 1602)