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January 11

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175

Taiping Rebellion

175 years ago

Born this day

1842

William James

Died aged 68

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1679th

Theodosius I

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AD 347 · 1679 yrs

Theodosius I

Theodosius I (Latin: Theodosius, Ancient Greek: Θεοδόσιος Theodósios; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. He won two civil wars and was instrumental in establishing the Nicene Creed as the orthodox doctrine for Nicene Christianity.

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RoyaltyDied aged 48

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1503 · 523 yrs

Parmigianino

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (UK:, US:, Italian:; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.

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ArtDied aged 37

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1638 · 388 yrs

Nicolas Steno

Niels Steensen (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

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ReligionDied aged 48

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1755 · 271 yrs

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington.

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MilitaryDied aged 49

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1815 · 211 yrs

John A. Macdonald

Sir John Alexander Macdonald (10 or 11 January 1815 – 6 June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century.

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PoliticsDied aged 76

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1842 · 184 yrs

William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist.

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PhilosophyDied aged 68

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1852 · 174 yrs

Constantin Fehrenbach

Constantin Fehrenbach, sometimes erroneously Konstantin Fehrenbach, (11 January 1852 – 26 March 1926), was a German politician who was one of the major leaders of the Catholic Centre Party. He served as president of the Reichstag in 1918 and then as president of the Weimar National Assembly from 1919 to 1920.

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PoliticsDied aged 74

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1859 · 167 yrs

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1924.

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PoliticsDied aged 66

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1885 · 141 yrs

Alice Paul

Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to…

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1903 · 123 yrs

Alan Paton

Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer, anti-apartheid activist, and educator. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.

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LiteratureWould be 123

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1906 · 120 yrs100 Club

Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin.

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1911 · 115 yrs

Zenkō Suzuki

Zenkō Suzuki (鈴木善幸, Suzuki Zenkō; 11 January 1911 – 19 July 2004) was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1980 to 1982.

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Famous deaths18

1494 · 532 yrs

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence.

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ArtDied aged 45

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1829 · 197 yrs

Friedrich Schlegel

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel ( SHLAY-gəl; German:; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Romanticism.

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LiteratureDied aged 56

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1882 · 144 yrs

Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann (German pronunciation:; 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German medical doctor and physiologist. His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals.

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ScienceDied aged 71

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1891 · 135 yrs

Georges-Eugène Haussmann

Georges-Eugène Haussmann (French:; 27 March 1809 – 11 January 1891), known as Baron Haussmann, was a French official who supervised a radical urban renewal programme of new boulevards, parks, and public works in Paris, referred to as Haussmann's renovation of Paris, aimed at introducing grandeur in the city.

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PoliticsDied aged 81

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1923 · 103 yrs

Constantine I of Greece

Constantine I (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Αʹ, romanized: Konstantínos I; 2 August 1868 – 11 January 1923) was King of Greece from 18 March 1913 to 11 June 1917 and again from 19 December 1920 to 27 September 1922. The eldest son of George I of Greece, he succeeded to the throne following his father's assassination in 1913.

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RoyaltyDied aged 54

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1928 · 98 yrs

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth.

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LiteratureDied aged 87

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1941 · 85 yrs

Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (German pronunciation:; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher.

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SportsDied aged 72

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1944 · 82 yrs

Galeazzo Ciano

Gian Galeazzo Ciano, 2nd Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari ( CHAH-noh, Italian:; 18 March 1903 – 11 January 1944), was an Italian diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy under the government of his father-in-law, Benito Mussolini, from 1936 until 1943.

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PoliticsWould be 123

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1966 · 60 yrs

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (US also, Italian:; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker, who was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism.

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1988 · 38 yrs

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Israel Isaac "Isidor" Rabi (Yiddish: איזידאָר יצחק ראַבי, romanized: Izidor Yitzkhok Rabi; July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei." He was also one of the first…

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1991 · 35 yrs

Carl David Anderson

Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.

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ScienceWould be 121

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2008 · 18 yrs

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, he and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

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Events5

1851 · 175 yrs

Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, Revolution, or Movement, was a civil war in late imperial China between the Qing dynasty and the rebel Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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War

1879 · 147 yrs

Anglo-Zulu War

The Anglo-Zulu War, or simply the Zulu War, was fought in present-day South Africa from January to early July 1879 between forces of the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Two famous battles of the war were the Zulu victory at Isandlwana and the British defence at Rorke's Drift.

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War

1923 · 103 yrs

Occupation of the Ruhr

The occupation of the Ruhr (German: Ruhrbesetzung) was the period from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925 when French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr region of Germany.

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War

1991 · 35 yrs

January Events

The January Events (Lithuanian: Sausio įvykiai) were a series of violent confrontations between the civilian population of Lithuania, supporting independence, and the Soviet Armed Forces. The events took place between 11 and 13 January 1991, after the restoration of independence by Lithuania.

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Politics

1992 · 34 yrs

Algerian Civil War

The Algerian Civil War (Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الجزائرية, romanized: al-Ḥarb al-Ahlīyah al-Jazāʼirīyah), known in Algeria as the Black Decade (Arabic: العشرية السوداء, romanized: al-ʻAshrīyah al-Sawdāʼ; French: La décennie noire), was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups…

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