What is January 15?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[69]] &ndash; [[Otho]] seizes power in [[Rome]], proclaiming himself [[Emperor of Rome]], but rules for only three [[month]]s before committing [[suicide]]. * [[1362]] &ndash; A [[North Sea]] [[flood]] kills many thousands of people. * [[1541]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] gives [[Jean-Francois Roberval]] a commission to settle the [[Province]] of [[New France]] ([[Canada]]) and provide for the spread of the [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic Faith]]. * [[1559]] &ndash; Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] is officially crowned [[Queen of England]]. * [[1582]] &ndash; [[Russia]] cedes [[Livonia]] and [[Estonia]] to the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]]. * [[1759]] &ndash; The [[British Museum]] is opened. * [[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: New Connecticut (present-day [[Vermont]]) declares its independence. * [[1790]] &ndash; The Bounty mutineers, led by [[Fletcher Christian]], arrive on [[Pitcairn Island]]. * [[1815]] &ndash; [[War of 1812]]: American [[frigate]] USS ''President'', commanded by [[Stephen Decatur]], is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. * [[1822]] &ndash; [[Greek War of Independence]]: [[Demetrios Ypsilantis]] is elected [[President]] of the Legislative [[Assembly]]. * [[1844]] &ndash; The [[University of Notre Dame]] receives its charter from the state of [[Indiana]]. * [[1865]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Fort Fisher in [[North Carolina]] falls to Union forces. * [[1870]] &ndash; A political [[cartoon]] (by [[Thomas Nast]]) for the first time uses a [[donkey]] as a symbol of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in the [[United States]]. * [[1876]] &ndash; The first [[newspaper]] in [[Afrikaans]], De Afrikaans Patriot, is published. * [[1885]] &ndash; American [[Wilson Bentley]] takes the first photographs of [[snow]]flakes. * [[1889]] &ndash; The [[Coca-Cola]] [[Company]], then-known as the Pemberton [[Medicine]] Company, is incorporated in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georg