WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. JANUARY
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Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. (17. January 38. BC)

Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother (aged 10). (17. January 395)

King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca. (17. January 1287)

Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. (17. January 1377)

Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. (17. January 1524)

France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain. (17. January 1562)

Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. (17. January 1595)

Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. (17. January 1608)

England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War. (17. January 1648)

Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle. (17. January 1773)

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens – Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina. (17. January 1781)

Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed. (17. January 1799)

Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionaries. (17. January 1811)

The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal. (17. January 1852)

A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, part of the Modoc War. (17. January 1873)

A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan. (17. January 1885)

The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii. (17. January 1893)

The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. (17. January 1899)

El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve. (17. January 1903)

Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre. (17. January 1904)