WHAT HAPPENED ON 23. JANUARY
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Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year old son Honorius co-emperor. (23. January 393)

In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. (23. January 971)

In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. (23. January 1368)

Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. (23. January 1546)

The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. (23. January 1556)

James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. (23. January 1570)

The Royal Exchange opens in London. (23. January 1571)

The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. (23. January 1579)

Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. (23. January 1656)

The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. (23. January 1719)

Georgetown College, the first Catholic University in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) (23. January 1789)

Second Partition of Poland (23. January 1793)

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. (23. January 1849)

The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Hennepin Avenue Bridge. (23. January 1855)

In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. (23. January 1870)

Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. (23. January 1879)

Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction. (23. January 1897)

The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. (23. January 1899)

Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. (23. January 1899)

Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. (23. January 1900)