WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. JANUARY
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Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. (22. January 565)

Constantine (8-month-old) is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. (22. January 613)

The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican. (22. January 1506)

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya. (22. January 1517)

Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms (22. January 1521)

The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma. (22. January 1555)

The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688. (22. January 1689)

The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast. (22. January 1824)

Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender. (22. January 1849)

The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia. (22. January 1863)

Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices. (22. January 1877)

Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops decisively defeat British troops. (22. January 1879)

Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors. (22. January 1879)

Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. (22. January 1889)

The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio. (22. January 1890)

Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation. (22. January 1899)

Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. (22. January 1901)

Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. (22. January 1905)

SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. (22. January 1906)

Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon. (22. January 1915)