Through most of 1603, Kepler paused his other work to focus on optical theory ; the resulting manuscript, presented to the emperor on January 1, 1604, was published as Astronomiae Pars Optica ( The Optical Part of Astronomy ).

* January 31 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist ( b. 1604 )

Jakob Balde ( January 4, 1604 – August 9, 1668 ), a German Latinist, was born at Ensisheim in Alsace.

* January 31-Jean Mairet, dramatist ( born 1604 )

* January 16-Olivier Patru, legal historian and translator ( born 1604 )

* January 11-Joannes Lucius, Dalmatian historian ( born 1604 )

* January 20 – Isaac Ambrose, Puritan writer ( born 1604 )

A subsequent Stationers ' Register entry, dated 7 January 1601, assigns the play to the bookseller Thomas Bushnell, the publisher of the 1604 first edition.

The first Jesuits left Pont-à-Mousson on 16 October 1603, and reached La Flèche on 2 January 1604.

In 1603 he was made a Privy Counsellor, on 1 January 1604 Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and on 13 March Earl of Northampton and Baron Marnhull, of Marnhull in the County of Dorset ; on 24 February 1605 he was given the Garter and on 29 April was appointed Lord Privy Seal.

The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting in January 1604, convened at Hampton Court Palace, for discussion between King James I of England and representatives of the Church of England, including leading English Puritans.

The monastery was operational by 1604, and the church was formally declared complete on January 19, 1607, and named St. Paul of Manila.

Grey Brydges succeeded his father in the Chandos barony, attended James I's initial parliament ( 19 March 1604 ), and was made Knight of the Bath when Prince Charles was created Duke of York ( January 1605 ).

Mirza Asad Baig left Bijapur on 24 January 1604.

In Dresden on 16 September 1604 Johann Georg married firstly Sibylle Elisabeth of Württemberg ( 10 April 1584-20 January 1606 ).

Jean ( de ) Mairet ( May 10, 1604 – January 31, 1686 ) was a classical French dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies.

He was joined in a special commission with William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester, Thomas Bilson, and others, for ecclesiastical causes within the diocese of Winchester ; and in another to exercise all spiritual jurisdiction in the said diocese with John Whitgift, Bilson and others, by James I, 1603, to whom he was also chaplain, and by whom he was invited to the Hampton Court conference of January 1604.

Through most of 1603, Kepler paused his other work to focus on optical theory ; the resulting manuscript, presented to the emperor on January 1, 1604, was published as Astronomiae Pars Optica ( The Optical Part of Astronomy ).

* Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton 28 January 1604 – 31 May 1620

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

Alfonso IV, called the Kind ( also the Gentle or the Nice, ) ( 1299, Naples – 24 January 1336 ) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona ( as Alfonso III ) from 1327 to his death.

The party set out on 27 January 1249, with letters from King Louis and the papal legate, and rich presents, including a chapel-tent, lined with scarlet cloth and embroidered with sacred pictures.

After Eschiva's death in October 1197 he married Isabella, the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem by his second marriage, and became King of Jerusalem in right of his wife and crowned at Acre in January 1198.

On January 28, 1931, King Victor Emanuel finally declared Clipperton to be a French possession.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

Catharine of Aragon ( Castilian: Catalina de Aragón ; ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 ) was the Spanish Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

Just before and after the execution of King Charles I on 30 January 1649, the Rump passed a number of acts of Parliament creating the legal basis for the republic.

On 8 May it proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I in January 1649.

Charles I ( 19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649 ) was King of England, King of Scotland, and King of Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

On 14 January 1929, Amanullah abdicated in favor of his brother, King Inayatullah Khan.

He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of King George V in January 1936.

This threat was realised when on 6 January 1661, 50 Fifth Monarchists, headed by a wine-cooper named Thomas Venner, made an effort to attain possession of London in the name of " King Jesus.

King Behanzin surrendered and was captured by the legionnaires in January 1894.

This work attracted considerable attention, and in January 1810, at the age of 25, Bessel was appointed director of the Königsberg Observatory by King Frederick William III of Prussia.

In January 2010, King Abdullah of Jordan, after a meeting with the Israeli president Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Davos, declared that his country does not want to rule the West Bank and that " the two-state solution " to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was the only viable option.