What is January 22?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[565]] &ndash; Eutychius is deposed as [[Patriarch]] of [[Constantinople]] by [[John Scholasticus]]. * [[1462]] &ndash; The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] reach Sao Vicente, [[Cape Verde]]. * [[1506]] &ndash; The first contingent of 150 [[Swiss Guards]] arrive in [[Vatican City]]. * [[1517]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman Empire]] under Selim I defeats the Mamluk [[Sultan]]ate and captures the area that is now [[Egypt]] in the [[Battle of Ridaniya]]. * [[1521]] &ndash; [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]] opens the [[Diet of Worms]]. * [[1555]] &ndash; The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present–day [[Burma]]. * [[1689]] &ndash; The Convention [[Parliament]] convenes on whether [[James II of England]]/[[James VII of Scotland]] abandoned the [[throne]]s of [[England]], [[Scotland]] and [[Ireland]] when he fled to [[France]] in [[1688]]. * [[1771]] &ndash; [[Spain]] gives Port Egmont in the [[Falkland Islands]] to [[England]]. * [[1824]] &ndash; The [[Ashanti]]s defeat British forces in the Gold Coast, present–day [[Ghana]]. * [[1840]] &ndash; [[United Kingdom|British]] colonists reach [[New Zealand]]. * [[1849]] &ndash; [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]]: The [[Siege of Multan]] ends after nine [[month]]s when the last defenders of Multan, [[Punjab region|Punjab]], surrender. * [[1863]] &ndash; The [[January]] Uprising begins the [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]] and [[Belarus]] against [[Russia]]n rule. * [[1873]] &ndash; The British clipper ''Northfleet'' collides with Spanish [[steamship]] ''Murillo'' off [[Kent]], killing 293 people. * [[1879]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]]: In the [[Battle of Rorke's Drift]], 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by 3 to 4,000 [[Zulu]] warriors. On the same day, [[Zulu]] warriors defeat British troops at the [[Battle of Isandlwana]]. * [[1890]] &ndash; The [[United Mine Workers of America]] trade union is founded in [[Columbus, Ohio]]. * [[1899]] &ndash; Leaders of six [[Australia]]n colonies mee