What is January 3?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1496]] &ndash; [[Leonardo da Vinci]] unsuccessfully tests a flying machine. * [[1521]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo X]] [[excommunication|excommunicates]] [[Martin Luther]]. * [[1749]] &ndash; The first issue of the [[Denmark|Danish]] [[newspaper]] ''Berlingske Tidende'' is published. * [[1777]] &ndash; American general [[George Washington]] defeats a [[United Kingdom|British]]–[[Hesse|Hessian]] [[Army]] under [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis]] in the [[Battle of Princeton]]. * [[1795]] &ndash; [[Catherine II of Russia]] and [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor]] complete a [[treaty]] agreeing to the [[Third Partition of Poland]]. * [[1815]] &ndash; [[Austria]], the [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]] form a secret defensive [[alliance]] against [[Prussia]] and [[Russia]]. * [[1823]] &ndash; [[Stephen A. Austin]] receives a [[land grant|grant of land]] in [[Texas]] from the [[Mexico|Mexican]] [[government]]. * [[1848]] &ndash; [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]] is sworn in as the first [[President]] of [[Liberia]]. * [[1851]] &ndash; French [[physicist]] [[Jean Bernard Léon Foucault]] experiments with the [[Foucault pendulum]] to prove that the [[Earth]] rotates. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Delaware]] votes to remain in the [[United States]], and not to [[secession|secede]]. * [[1868]] &ndash; [[Emperor Meiji|Meiji]] Restoration in [[Japan]]. * [[1870]] &ndash; Building work on the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] in [[New York City]] begins. * [[1888]] &ndash; The [[refraction|refracting]] [[telescope]] at the [[Lick Observatory]] near [[San Jose, California]], measuring {{convert|91|cm|sp=us}} in [[diameter]], is used for the first time. It was the world's largest telescope at the time. === 1901&ndash;2000 === * [[1908]] &ndash; The [[Kaziranga National Park]] is created in [[Assam]], northeastern [[India]]. * [[1911]] &ndash; A magnitude 7.7 [[earthquake]] destroys [[Almaty]] in present–day [[Kazakhstan]]. * [[1918]] &ndash; [[Finland]] officially gains independence from the [[Russi