Historical Events
- Jan 14 Dutch East India Company conquers the city of Malacca, 7,000 killed
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 18 François Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois), born in Paris (d. 1691)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 3 Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer who was 1st to demonstrate the Moon moves around the Earth in an elliptical orbit and predicted the 1639 transit of Venus, dies of unknown causes at 22
- Jan 11 Franciscus Gomarus [François Gomaer], Dutch theologian, Calvinist minister, and academic, dies at 77
- Jan 11 Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet, scholar and painter of the Spanish Golden Age, dies at 57
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