The January 6th is the 6th Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 359 days before the end of the year (360 if this one is bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

  •    754: With the palate of Ponthion, in the south of Champagne, the king Pépin the Brief receives the pope Etienne II, first gesture of a thousand-year-old alliance.

  •     859: The Church of the Abbey of Saint-Germain of Auxerre, rebuilt by the abbot Hugues - first cousin of the King de France Charles the Bald person - after the plundering of the abbey by the Viking S, is devoted in the presence of the king.
  • 1286 : Crown Philippe IV Beautiful the, king of France.
  • 1317 : with Rheims: Philippe V of Poitiers is crowned king de France. With its death, Louis X left for only heiress a young girl, eight years, Jeanne. Philippe brother of late, succeeds in going up on the throne by évinçant the princess, who is the only wrong to be a girl.
  • 1378 : A banquet given to the palate of the City to Paris brings together three kings: Charles V of France, Charles IV, Germanic Emperor and his son, Venceslas IV, king de Bohême.
  • 1449 : Constantinople. Succeeding Jean VIII Paleologist, Constantin XI Paleologist goes up on the throne of Byzance. It will be the last Byzantine emperor.
  • 1453 : Austria. The emperor of the Saint Worsens Germanic Frederic III confirms the rights and preferences granted to the Austria by the the charter Privilegium maius of 1379 and raises the Austria with the row of archduchy. The archdukes of Austria will thus preserve until in 1806 the presidency of the Council of the Prince at the Diet of empire; however they will not form part of the college of the princes voters.
  • 1536 : News-Spain: The college Franciscain of Santa-Cruz of Tlatelolco is founded.
  • 1537 : Florence: In the evening of the Saturday, January 6 Alexandre de Médicis is assassinated by his/her cousin Lorenzaccio, which acted as any peace before escaping.
  • 1540 : The king Henri VIII of England wife Anne de Clèves in fourth weddings.
  • 1542 : Foundation of the town of Mérida, Mexico by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo, on the site of the old Maya city of Tiho.
  • 1558 : The troops of François de Guise take again Calais with English who had occupied it for two hundred years.
  • 1579 : Union of Arras, embryo of future the Belgium
  • 1649: The Sling force Court of France to move in the night with the castle of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer
  • 1689: A Convention proclaims the deposition of the king Jacques II of England (king Jacques VII of Scotland) and offers the crown of the two kingdoms, jointly with his/her son-in-law Guillaume III of Orange and with his daughter Marie II.
  • 1746 : Jean-Charles-Louis de Mesrigny, knight of Mesgrigny-Villebertin and future commander of Malta is made Chevalier of Malta a few months after its birth. (born the August 29th 1745).
  • 1810 : By the Treated of Constantinople, the Turkey accepts the annexation of the the Crimea and the Kouban by the Russia.
  • 1838 :
  • 1842 : Afghanistan, the English, strong troops of four thousand five hundred British and twelve thousand Indians, ordered by Lord Auckland and installed with Kabul since 1839, leave the city and are massacred during their retirement.
  • 1851 : in Great Britain, foundation of the in Amalgamated Society off Engineers , the general federation of the mechanics, by William Newton and William Allen. It will quickly count eleven thousand members in the Lancashire and the area of London.
  • 1862 : Battle of Jenny' S Creek, gained by the troops of the Union ordered by James Abram Garfield.

20th century

  • 1911 : Lord Roberts off Kandahar organizes the first competition of descent in ski.
  • 1912 : with the the United States, the New Mexico becomes the State forty-seventh.
  • 1913 : Suspension of the conference of peace of London, between the Turkey and Balkan States.
  • 1919 : Beginning of the “red Week” of Berlin.
  • 1922 : with Cannes, opening on the initiative of Llyod George and Aristide Briand of an interallied conference, which grants to the Germany terms of payment.
  • 1924 : First with the Theater of Monte Carlo of the ballet in an act the Hinds of Bronislava Nijinska, music of Francis Poulenc, decorations and costumes of Marie Laurencin.
  • 1926 : in Germany, creation of the Luft Hansa.
  • 1930 : A decree of Stalin on the Kolkhoze S removes the individual farms. It puts an end to NEP (Nouvelle Economic policy) inaugurated by Lénine nine years earlier.
  • 1934 : First railway line electrified between Antwerp and Brussels.
  • 1936 : with Washington, the Supreme court declares the in [[Agricultural Adjustement Act]] (AAA) nonin conformity with the Constitution.
  • 1938 : In Palestine, the British forces of occupation make a massacre in the village of Atil, close to Tulkarem, against the women and the children Palestinian S. They invade the Mosquée S and tear the Coran S.
  • 1941: The president Roosevelt defines the American objective of “four freedoms”: freedom of speech and of religion, release of misery and the fear.
  • 1950 : The the United Kingdom recognizes the Popular republic of China.
  • 1959 : Publication of the ordinances instituting the obligatory school up to sixteen years in France.
  • 1961 :
    • OAS starts a wave of bomb attacks in Paris.
    • In France, referendum on the self-determination of the Algeria, “yes” carries it.
  • 1963 : The U.N. emissary Ralph Bunche goes to the Congo in order to develop the methods end of the secession katangaise.
  • 1966 : Edgard Pisani is not any more minister of Agriculture.
  • 1968 : Gibson makes patent its electric guitar Flying V. The model will become one of the favorites of many guitarists of rock'n'roll and the brand name of the bluesman Albert King.
  • 1969: Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Léo Shoed joined together for the first time during a radio program.
  • 1975 : End of the ORTF and appearance of TF1, Antenna 2 and FR3, Radio France, TDF, INA and SFP.
  • 1978 : Creation of CNIL (National Commission of data processing and freedoms). The purpose of this commission is to regulate the treatments on the personal data.
  • 1980 : Success of Indira Gandhi with the Indian elections.
  • 1981 : Arrest with Leeds, in Great Britain, of the truck-driver Peter Sutcliffe, suspected of being the eventror of the Yorkshire. He will be accused of thirteen murders the next month.
  • 1983 : The Warsaw Pact recommends an agreement with NATO on the not-recourse to the military force and prohibition of the chemical weapons and with neutrons.
  • 1987 : Tripoli recognizes, for the first time, that the Libyans led military operations to the Chad, at the south of the 16th parallel.
  • 1991 : To Tamanrasset in Algeria, signature enters the government of the Mali and the representatives of the rebellion Touareg of the agreements putting a term at the rebellion of 1990 - 1991.
  • 1993 :
    • Erling Kagge reaches the South pole as a recluse and without assistance by towing its sledge.
    • UNO creates a zone of air exclusion in Iraq, in the south of the parallel 32e.
  • 1994 : Aggression of Nancy Kerrigan, skater, financed by her rival, Tonya Harding.
  • 1996 : Three people share 42,1 million pounds sterling the first prize of the British lottery.
  • 1998 : Exit in France of American film carried out by Tony Scott: Enemy of State .

21e century

  • 2002 : Argentinian, devaluation of the peso of 28  % compared to the American dollar

  • 2003: The American Paul Lauterbur and the Britannique Peter Mansfield receive the Nobel Prize of medicine.
  • 2004 : The tropical Cyclone Heta devastation the island of Niue making two victims and of the considerable damage in all the island.
  • 2005 : The Chinese population passes the bar of the 1,3 billion inhabitants.
  • 2007 :
  • Palestine: the president of the Palestinian authority Mahmoud Abbas, opposed to the movement Islam ist Hamas which controls the government, stated “illegal” a force controlled by the islamist government, which announced to have doubled its manpower and to have threatened to counteract against “very reached”.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Christian Festival of the Epiphany or Théophanie (Baptism of Christ in the Jordan): one thus celebrates the Thiphaine or Théophania and the Jordane.

  • Festival of the Nativity of Christ (Christmas) and of her Théophanie for the Armenian apostolic Church. It is the only Church has to preserve the former practice (former at the end of the 4th century) to celebrate Christmas on this date, jointly with Théophanie.

First names

  • Tiphaine (English Tiffany, Théophania in Greek), Jordan, Jordane.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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