1st January
1797 Albany replaces New York City as the capital of New York
1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate states
1903 In Delhi, a great durbar, or formal reception, marks the coronation of King Edward VII as Emperor of India; the British release some 16,000 prisoners in honor of the occasion
2nd January
1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
1948 Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet, dies at 69
3rd January
1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1777 General George Washington’s revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey)
4th January
1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
1865 New York Stock Exchange opens its 1st permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City
5th January
1666 Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism, founder and General of Khalsa Army, social reformist and poet, born in Patna Sahib (d. 1708)
1972 President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman freed by the newly elected President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
6th January
1847 Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
7th January
1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1830 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal
8th January
1879 Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jatin Bagha), the famous revolutionary, was born in Jessore.
1899 S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, 4th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1956-59), born in Colombo, British Ceylon (d. 1959)
1926 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud becomes King of Nejd and Hejaz; the forerunner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
