Historical Events
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
Jan 1 Protestant Western Europe (except England) begins using the Gregorian calendar
- Jan 1 Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire
- Jan 26 The magnitude 8.7-9.2 Cascadia earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records
Famous Deaths
- Jan 7 Raffaello Fabretti, Italian antiquarian (b. 1618)
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700)
Jan 12 French nun and Canada's first female saint who founded the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal, dies at 79 [1]
- Jan 22 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer, dies at 39
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