1AD The Feast of Epiphany celebrates the revelation of the Christ child to the Gentiles, when the Magi or wise men visited Bethlehem to see Jesus, by following a star. It is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 2. The holiday is celebrated by Christians twelve days after Christmas on January 6.
The Magi is a general term for astrologers, seers, and fortune tellers. In their sole appearance in the Gospel of Matthew, they are never named, and hail from "the east."
429 Saint Honoratus died January 6, 429. An early Archbishop of Arles, he founded a monastery on the wild island of Saint-Honorat on around 410 AD. (Saint-Honorat is one of the Lérins Islands, on the French Riviera,) Lérins Abbey is Europe's oldest surviving monastery and today the Cistercian monks there cultivate vineyards and produce wine and liqueur.
1017 Cnut, the son of the Danish prince Sweyn Forkbeard invaded England in 1015 with 200 longboats and an army of 20,000 men. He was offered the English throne in 1016 after defeating Edmund Ironside at Ashingdon in Essex. Cnut was crowned King of England on January 6, 1017. In 1018, Cnut succeeded his brother, Harold, as King of Denmark but continued to reside in England.
1066 Edward the Confessor died on January 5, 1066. The English king disinherited William of Normandy on his deathbed and appointed Harold Godwinson as his successor. His coronation quickly followed the following day. and he was crowned King Harold II of England on January 6, 1066.
1367 King Richard II of England was born on January 6, 1367 in Bordeaux, France, during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III. The son of Edward, the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan of Kent, Richard became his father's successor when his elder brother died in infancy. His father died before him, so he became king in 1377, when he was just 10 years old. Richard was deposed in 1399 by Henry of Bolingbroke (Henry IV), taken prisoner and died in captivity later that year.
1412 Joan of Arc was born on January 6 1412 in the village of Domrémy, in the valley of the Meuse, East France. Joan's father was Jacques D'Arc a well to do but illiterate, peasant farmer. Joan worked in harvest fields and guarded the animals at pasture. After a divine vision, she disguised herself as a man and led the French army to several victories during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by the Burgundians, the 19-year-old Joan was burned at the stake for heresy. She was canonized in 1920.
1494 On the feast of Epiphany, January 6, 1494, Christopher Columbus and all his men disembarked at Isabela on the island of Haiti and entered the temporary church that they had built. There they heard Fray Buil offer mass--the first mass ever heard on land in the New World.
1540 Anne of Cleves, the pudding faced sister of the German protestant leader, the Duke of Cleves, was recommended as a wife for Henry VIII of England by Thomas Cromwell. They met at Blackheath Common pageant, but Henry was not impressed by her looks. Despite Henry's very vocal misgivings, the two were married at the royal Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer on January 6, 1540. However, Henry quickly pensioned Anne off,
1681 The first known boxing match in Britain was on January 6, 1681, when Christopher Monck, the 2nd Duke of Albemarle organized a bout between his butler and his butcher at his home in New Hall, Essex. The butcher won the fight.
1759 George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, the wealthy widow of Daniel Parker Custis on January 6, 1759, at the White House plantation, a late 17th-century plantation on the Pamunkey River near White House in New Kent County, Virginia. She was eight months older than him. Martha brought her vast wealth to her marriage to Washington, which enabled him to buy land to add to his personal estate. Washington adopted Custis's two children and never fathered any of his own.
1836 When Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati in 1832, she joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club. It was there she met the fragile Calvin Stowe. She became close friends in Cincinnati with the professor and his wife Eliza. Eliza died in 1834 and Harriet Beecher married the widowed Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836. The couple was devoted to each other and supported their partners in their work.
1838 Samuel Morse made the first demonstration of his telegraph system using dots and dashes at the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey on January 6, 1838. Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully used Morse Code to send a message, which read: "A patient waiter is no loser." This first public transmission was witnessed by a mostly local crowd.
1839 The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland on January 6, 1839. 100-knot winds damaged or destroyed more than 20% of the houses in Dublin. The Night of the Big Wind became part of Irish folk tradition.
1850 On January 6, 1850, a snow storm made the 15-year-old Charles Spurgeon seek shelter in a Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester, Essex. He was converted from nominal Anglicanism while listening to a local preacher there. The text that moved young Charles was Isaiah 45:22. Spurgeon became possibly the greatest preacher of his age, 6,000 gathered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle to hear him twice each Sunday.
1852 French educator Louis Braille died on January 6, 1852. Braille, who lost his sight at the age of three, devised a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His system is known worldwide simply as braille. Louis Braille had developed tuberculosis as a young adult and by the age of forty, he was forced to relinquish his position as a teacher. He died at his family home, two days after he had reached the age of forty-three.
1853 On January 6, 1853, just two months before his presidential inauguration, Franklin Pierce, his wife Jane and their 11-year-old son Benny boarded a train bound for Boston. During the journey their derailed car started to roll down an embankment. near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survived, merely shaken up, but had the the horrifying experience of seeing Benny get crushed to death.
1903 Albert Einstein met a young Serbian from Hungary, Mileva Marić at Zurich polytechnic. They would work together in the laboratory long after other students had left. Albert called her "Street Urchin" or "Little Frog." They married on January 6, 1903. Einstein's marriage to Marić was both a personal and intellectual partnership: Einstein referred to Mileva as "a creature who is my equal and who is as strong and independent as I am."
1907 Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy on January 6, 1907. The Montessori Method of Education, developed by Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children. It is in use today in many public and private schools globally.
The Magi is a general term for astrologers, seers, and fortune tellers. In their sole appearance in the Gospel of Matthew, they are never named, and hail from "the east."
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| Adoration of the Magi by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 17th century |
429 Saint Honoratus died January 6, 429. An early Archbishop of Arles, he founded a monastery on the wild island of Saint-Honorat on around 410 AD. (Saint-Honorat is one of the Lérins Islands, on the French Riviera,) Lérins Abbey is Europe's oldest surviving monastery and today the Cistercian monks there cultivate vineyards and produce wine and liqueur.
1017 Cnut, the son of the Danish prince Sweyn Forkbeard invaded England in 1015 with 200 longboats and an army of 20,000 men. He was offered the English throne in 1016 after defeating Edmund Ironside at Ashingdon in Essex. Cnut was crowned King of England on January 6, 1017. In 1018, Cnut succeeded his brother, Harold, as King of Denmark but continued to reside in England.
1066 Edward the Confessor died on January 5, 1066. The English king disinherited William of Normandy on his deathbed and appointed Harold Godwinson as his successor. His coronation quickly followed the following day. and he was crowned King Harold II of England on January 6, 1066.
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| King Harold II places the crown on his own head |
1367 King Richard II of England was born on January 6, 1367 in Bordeaux, France, during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III. The son of Edward, the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan of Kent, Richard became his father's successor when his elder brother died in infancy. His father died before him, so he became king in 1377, when he was just 10 years old. Richard was deposed in 1399 by Henry of Bolingbroke (Henry IV), taken prisoner and died in captivity later that year.
1412 Joan of Arc was born on January 6 1412 in the village of Domrémy, in the valley of the Meuse, East France. Joan's father was Jacques D'Arc a well to do but illiterate, peasant farmer. Joan worked in harvest fields and guarded the animals at pasture. After a divine vision, she disguised herself as a man and led the French army to several victories during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by the Burgundians, the 19-year-old Joan was burned at the stake for heresy. She was canonized in 1920.
1494 On the feast of Epiphany, January 6, 1494, Christopher Columbus and all his men disembarked at Isabela on the island of Haiti and entered the temporary church that they had built. There they heard Fray Buil offer mass--the first mass ever heard on land in the New World.
1540 Anne of Cleves, the pudding faced sister of the German protestant leader, the Duke of Cleves, was recommended as a wife for Henry VIII of England by Thomas Cromwell. They met at Blackheath Common pageant, but Henry was not impressed by her looks. Despite Henry's very vocal misgivings, the two were married at the royal Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, London by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer on January 6, 1540. However, Henry quickly pensioned Anne off,
1681 The first known boxing match in Britain was on January 6, 1681, when Christopher Monck, the 2nd Duke of Albemarle organized a bout between his butler and his butcher at his home in New Hall, Essex. The butcher won the fight.
1759 George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, the wealthy widow of Daniel Parker Custis on January 6, 1759, at the White House plantation, a late 17th-century plantation on the Pamunkey River near White House in New Kent County, Virginia. She was eight months older than him. Martha brought her vast wealth to her marriage to Washington, which enabled him to buy land to add to his personal estate. Washington adopted Custis's two children and never fathered any of his own.
1836 When Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati in 1832, she joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club. It was there she met the fragile Calvin Stowe. She became close friends in Cincinnati with the professor and his wife Eliza. Eliza died in 1834 and Harriet Beecher married the widowed Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836. The couple was devoted to each other and supported their partners in their work.
1838 Samuel Morse made the first demonstration of his telegraph system using dots and dashes at the Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey on January 6, 1838. Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail successfully used Morse Code to send a message, which read: "A patient waiter is no loser." This first public transmission was witnessed by a mostly local crowd.
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| Original Samuel Morse telegraph |
1839 The most damaging storm in 300 years swept across Ireland on January 6, 1839. 100-knot winds damaged or destroyed more than 20% of the houses in Dublin. The Night of the Big Wind became part of Irish folk tradition.
1850 On January 6, 1850, a snow storm made the 15-year-old Charles Spurgeon seek shelter in a Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester, Essex. He was converted from nominal Anglicanism while listening to a local preacher there. The text that moved young Charles was Isaiah 45:22. Spurgeon became possibly the greatest preacher of his age, 6,000 gathered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle to hear him twice each Sunday.
1852 French educator Louis Braille died on January 6, 1852. Braille, who lost his sight at the age of three, devised a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. His system is known worldwide simply as braille. Louis Braille had developed tuberculosis as a young adult and by the age of forty, he was forced to relinquish his position as a teacher. He died at his family home, two days after he had reached the age of forty-three.
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| Braille's memorial in the Panthéon By Son of Groucho from Scotland. |
1853 On January 6, 1853, just two months before his presidential inauguration, Franklin Pierce, his wife Jane and their 11-year-old son Benny boarded a train bound for Boston. During the journey their derailed car started to roll down an embankment. near Andover, Massachusetts. Franklin and Jane survived, merely shaken up, but had the the horrifying experience of seeing Benny get crushed to death.
1903 Albert Einstein met a young Serbian from Hungary, Mileva Marić at Zurich polytechnic. They would work together in the laboratory long after other students had left. Albert called her "Street Urchin" or "Little Frog." They married on January 6, 1903. Einstein's marriage to Marić was both a personal and intellectual partnership: Einstein referred to Mileva as "a creature who is my equal and who is as strong and independent as I am."
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| Albert and Mileva Einstein, 1912 |
1907 Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori opened her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy on January 6, 1907. The Montessori Method of Education, developed by Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children. It is in use today in many public and private schools globally.
1912 Following their defeat in the Mexican–American War (1846–48), under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Mexico ceded its mostly unsettled northern holdings, including New Mexico, to the United States of America. New Mexico was admitted as the 47th U.S. State on January 6, 1912.
1912 The speculation that continents might have 'drifted' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The concept was independently and more fully developed by German geophysicist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), who presented his Continental Drift hypothesis on January 6, 1912.
1919 In early January 1919, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dictated a fiery memo to the Chairman of the Republican National Committee on the subject of getting rid of Woodrow Wilson. It was to be his last political act. Four days later, on January 6, 1919, Roosevelt died unexpectedly in his sleep at his Sagamore Hill home of a coronary embolism at the age of 60. His last words were to a African American servant "Please put that light out James."
1912 The speculation that continents might have 'drifted' was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The concept was independently and more fully developed by German geophysicist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), who presented his Continental Drift hypothesis on January 6, 1912.
1919 In early January 1919, Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, dictated a fiery memo to the Chairman of the Republican National Committee on the subject of getting rid of Woodrow Wilson. It was to be his last political act. Four days later, on January 6, 1919, Roosevelt died unexpectedly in his sleep at his Sagamore Hill home of a coronary embolism at the age of 60. His last words were to a African American servant "Please put that light out James."
1930 The first US diesel-power passenger car, a Cummins powered Packard, was built in Columbus, Indiana. To promote the diesel engine, Cummins Engine Company owner Clessie Cummins mounted a diesel engine in a used Packard Touring Car and set out from Indianapolis, Indiana for New York's National Automobile Show. The 800-mile journey was completed on January 6, 1930 showing that diesel was a viable option as an internal combustion engine.
1937 After three years as the world No. 1 tennis amateur player, English tennis star Fred Perry turned professional in late 1936 after his friend, comedian Harpo Marx, told him: "You can’t buy groceries with glory." He made his professional debut on January 6, 1937 at New York City's Madison Square Garden against the best professional player, Ellsworth Vines and immediately began to make lots of money.
1945 George H.W. Bush married Barbara Pierce on January 6, 1945 at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York. They had six children, including George W Bush who became president in 2001 and Jeb (John Ellis) Bush, who became governor of Florida in 1999.
1947 On January 6, 1947, Pan American Airlines became the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket. The first commercial around-the-world airline flight took place five years earlier in 1942. Pan American World Airways was the company credited with that historic feat.
1957 Elvis Presley made his third and final appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on January 6, 1957. Elvis' pelvic gyrations on the show were considered so scandalous that during his third and final appearance, he was shot only down to the waist.
2013 Logistics or Logistics Art Project is a 2012 experimental Swedish art film conceived and created by Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days), it is the longest movie ever made. The 5-weeks long film was screened at Uppsala City Library between December 1, 2012 – January 6, 2013, at The House of Culture, Stockholm.
2017 "Shape Of You" was released from Ed Sheeran's third album Divide on January 6, 2017. The song debuted at #1 on the Hot 100, while "Castle on the Hill" entered the listing at #6. This was a historic achievement as it was the first ever time an act had debuted with two titles in the top 10 in the same week. "Shape Of You" became the most streamed song on Spotify in September 2017, reaching 1,318,420,396 streams overtaking Drake's "One Dance." 64 months later, The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights" surpassed "Shape Of You" to become the platform's most-streamed song.
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