WHAT HAPPENED ON 13. JANUARY
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Nika riots in Constantinople. (13. January 532)

Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks. (13. January 888)

Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV. (13. January 1435)

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death. (13. January 1547)

The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain. (13. January 1607)

French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier arrived Dhaka and met Shaista Khan. (13. January 1666)

Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome (13. January 1793)

French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths. (13. January 1797)

War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state. (13. January 1815)

The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. (13. January 1822)

The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins. (13. January 1830)

President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis. (13. January 1833)

The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives. (13. January 1840)

Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (13. January 1842)

The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican–American War in California. (13. January 1847)

National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C. (13. January 1869)

The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting. (13. January 1893)

U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. (13. January 1893)

Émile Zola's J'accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair. (13. January 1898)

The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people. (13. January 1908)

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