What is January 11?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[314]] &ndash; [[Pope Miltiades]] ends his reign as the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] Pope. * [[532]] &ndash; [[Nika riots]] in [[Constantinople]]. * [[1158]] &ndash; [[Vladislav II of Bohemia|Vladislav II]] becomes King of [[Bohemia]]. * [[1569]] &ndash; First recorded [[lottery]] in [[England]]. * [[1571]] &ndash; Austrian nobility is granted [[freedom of religion]]. * [[1693]] &ndash; [[Mount Etna]] erupts in [[Sicily]], [[Italy]]. * [[1759]] &ndash; In [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], the first American [[life insurance]] company is incorporated. * [[1779]] &ndash; [[Ching-Tang Khomba]] is crowned [[King]] of [[Manipur]] in present–day northeastern [[India]]. * [[1787]] &ndash; [[William Herschel]] [[timeline of natural satellites|discovers]] [[Titania (moon)|Titania]] and [[Oberon (moon)|Oberon]], two [[Uranus' natural satellites|moons]] of [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]]. * [[1805]] &ndash; [[Michigan Territory]] is created. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Alabama]] secedes from the [[United States]]. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Arkansas Post]] – General [[John McClernand]] and Admiral [[David Dixon Porter]] capture the [[Arkansas River]] for the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. * [[1866]] &ndash; British [[passenger]] [[ship]] ''London'' sinks in a [[storm]] in the [[Bay of Biscay]], killing 220 out of the 239 people on board. * [[1867]] &ndash; [[Benito Juárez]] becomes [[Mexico|Mexican]] president again. * [[1879]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]] begins. * [[1880]] &ndash; Total [[solar eclipse]] blackens the sky of [[San Francisco]] one day after the funeral of [[Emperor Norton]]. === 1901&ndash;1950 === * [[1902]] &ndash; ''[[Popular Mechanics]]'' magazine was published for the first time. * [[1908]] &ndash; The [[Grand Canyon National Monument]] is created. * [[1917]] &ndash; The Kingsland Munitions [[Factory]] explosion occurs in Lyndhurst, [[New Jersey]]. * [[1919]] &ndash; [[Romania]] annexes [[Transylvania]]. * [[1922]] &ndash; First