38 BC Octavian marries Livia Drusilla, who is pregnant by her previous husband, Ti. Claudius Nero, with the future Emperor Tiberius
395 Arcadius, 18, succeeds his father Theodosius as Roman Emperor in the East (395-408), while his brother Honorius, 10, succeeds in the West (395-423)
1377 Gregory XI (1370-1378) returns the papacy to Rome, ending the "Babylonian Captivity" in Avignon (1307-1377)
1475 Battle of Krakovicz: Hungarians and Moldavians beat the Turks
1501 Triumphal reception at Rome for Cesare Borgia for his victories in the Romagna
1601 Spain cedes the alpine regions of Bresse, Bugey, Valromey, & Gex to France
1608 Battle of Ebenat: Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia crushes an Oromo army
1642 Battle of Kemper: French defeat the Imperialists
1656 Brandenburg & Sweden make peace at Konigsberg
1746 Battle of Falkirk: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highlanders defeat the English
1773 Captain Cook in 'Resolution' reaches the Antarctic Circle
1781 Battle of the Cowpens: Dan Morgan annihilates Banastare Tarleton's Anglo-Tory force
1811 Battle of Calderon Bridge: Spanish forces crush Mexican Revolutionaries
1821 Mexico grants Moses Austin extensive lands in Texas
1832 USS 'Peacock' conducts a diplomatic mission to Vietnamese court1862 US gunboat 'Lexington' bombards Ft Henry, TN (surrenders Jan 22)
1863 Skirmish near Newtown, Virginia
1881 War of the Pacific: Chileans capture Lima, invested since the 13th
1885 Battle of Abu Klea: Egypto-British Army defeats the Mahdists
1893 American businessmen stage a coup in Hawaii, deposing Queen Liliuokalani
1899 CDR Taussig of the USS 'Bennington' takes formal possession of Wake Island
1911 Attempted assassination of Premier Briand in the French Assembly
1912 Briton Robert F. Scott & his party reach the South Pole, five weeks after Amundsen's Norwegian expedition
1915 Battle of Sarikamish: After more than three weeks of heavy fighting, the Russians defeat an Ottoman army in what is now northeastern Turkey
1915 A Russia offensive captures Bukovina & Western Ukraine
1942 Bataan: Heavy fighting continues.
1942 British are under heavy pressure on the Muar River line in Malaya.
1943 Guadalcanal: Combined Army-Marine Div attacks west along the coast
1943 National "Tin Can Drive" Day
1943 Papua: Allied forces begin a major offensive against Sanananda.
1944 HM Corvette 'Violet' sinks 'U-641' in the Atlantic Ocean
1944 New Britain: Allies subdue last Japanese at Arawe, southern coast
1945 Luzon: Sixth Army steps up its drive on Manila.
1945 Raoul Wallenberg, "Righteous Gentile", disappears in Hungary while in Soviet custody
1945 Soviets drive the Germans out of Warsaw
1947 Ammunition plant explosion at Muiden, Netherlands, 16 die
1948 Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease-fire
1951 China refuses to cease fire in Korea
1955 USS 'Nautilus' (SSN-571) gets underway on nuclear power
1961 Pres. Eisenhower's farewell address warns of a "military-industrial complex"1966 A B-52 carrying four hydrogen bombs crashes off the Spanish coast
1991 Operation Desert Storm: Coalition air offensive is unleashed over Iraq, US pilot Jeffrey Zahn is shot down and captured
1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway, in succession to his father, Olav V (1957-1991)
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Today in Military history (17 January)
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