WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. JANUARY
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Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted. (28. January 1077)

King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball. (28. January 1393)

The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. (28. January 1521)

Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. (28. January 1547)

Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland. (28. January 1573)

Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts. (28. January 1624)

The Chinese storm Dartsedo. (28. January 1701)

The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917. (28. January 1724)

Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann. (28. January 1754)

Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants. (28. January 1760)

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom. (28. January 1813)

A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast. (28. January 1820)

Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. (28. January 1821)

The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith. (28. January 1846)

Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois. (28. January 1851)

A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway, runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time. (28. January 1855)

Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice. (28. January 1871)

Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. (28. January 1878)

In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. (28. January 1887)

Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined 1 shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thus exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h). (28. January 1896)