On January 24, 1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, which enabled Washington to drive the British army out of Boston.

* Johann Wilhelm Ritter, chemist and physicist, born December 16, 1776 in nearby Samitz, died January 23, 1810 in Munich

In January 1776, Allen and his men were put on board HMS Soledad, which sailed for Cork, Ireland.

It became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America.

* Tory Act University of Tulsa ; Order of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 2 January 1776

In January 1776, just as it became clear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was published.

On June 15, the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, which had been governing the province since January 1776, resolved that Royal Governor William Franklin was " an enemy to the liberties of this country " and had him arrested.

* January 23 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist ( b. 1776 )

The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774

On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.

General Henry Knox passed through the town in January 1776, bringing cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to aid in ending the Siege of Boston, a route now known as the Knox Trail.

I, January 1, 1769-March 13, 1776 ).

As a famous story of Muhlenberg has it, at conclusion of his farewell sermon on January 21, 1776, Muhlenberg threw off his clerical robes to reveal an officer's uniform beneath and shouted, " there is a time to pray and a time to fight ..." With that declaration, the story says he then called for volunteers to join the 8th Virginia Regiment under his command.

On January 2, 1847, his story " Fourth of July, 1776 " appeared in Saturday Review magazine.

*, was a row galley acquired in January 1776 with an unknown fate after August the same year

Johann Joseph von Görres ( 25 January 1776 – 29 January 1848 ) was a German writer and journalist.

Barthold Georg Niebuhr ( August 27, 1776, Copenhagen – January 2, 1831, Bonn ) was a Danish-German statesman and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography.

* January 2-Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian ( born 1776 )

It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution.

In January 1776 Howe's role as commander in chief was cemented with a promotion to full general in North America.

Abraham Raimbach ( 16 February 1776 – 17 January 1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense ( January 10 )

William remained as governor until January of 1776 when colonial militiamen placed him under house arrest until the middle of June.

By the 1st century BC, Aediles were elected in July, and took office on the first day in January.

He married secondly at Çubuklu, Bosphorus, on 1 March 1910 and divorced in 1913 Hungarian Noblewoman Marianne Török de Szendrö, who took the name Zübeyde Cavidan Hanım ( Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 8 January 1874-aft.

Nielsen remained with the company until January 2009, when he accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer at VMware ; CFO Erik Prusch then took over as Acting President and CEO.

* Battle of Braddock Down which took place in January 1643 a few miles from Lostwithiel.

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

( The latter prohibition took effect 1 January 1808, the earliest date on which Congress had the power to do so under Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution.

A debate took place in the Reichstag on 15 January 1916, where the incident was described as a " cowardly murder " and Grey's note as being " full of insolence and arrogance ".

1 PARA arrived in Derry on the morning of Sunday 30 January 1972 and took up positions in the city.

First military right-wingers opposing Alessandri seized power in September 1924, and then reformers in favor of the ousted president took charge in January 1925.

as it took place following a popular uprising that began on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 and is still continuing as of February 2012.

However, in January 1927, Wang Jingwei and his KMT leftist allies took the city of Wuhan amid much popular mobilization and fanfare.

On 30 January 1698, he raised French colours and took his greatest prize, an Armenian ship, the 400 ton Quedagh Merchant, which was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks.

The process was caused by weakening of the Soviet government, which led to disintegration and took place from about 19 January 1990 to 31 December 1991.

To maintain the momentum of the perceived commercial interest in this new investment opportunity, in 1983, the Government itself granted eleven interim franchises for new broadband systems each covering a community of up to around 100, 000 homes, but the competitive franchising process was otherwise left to the new regulatory body, the Cable Authority, which took on its powers from January 1, 1985.

While contemporaneous accounts are clear that the handshake took place on Saturday, some historians have changed the date of the merger to Sunday, January 1, 1832.

The Paquisha War was a brief military clash that took place between January and February 1981 between Ecuador and Peru over the control of three watchposts.

As soon as Elihu Yale took over the administration of Fort St George on July 26, 1687, he implemented an order dated January 14, 1685 which required the English at Fort St George to make all attempts at procurement of the town of St Thome on lease.

President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect on January 1, 1863, declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate-held territory.

The excommunication of Bardinus was reiterated in Canon 6 of the document produced by Lateran I. Gelasius II promptly excommunicated the antipope Gregory VIII and Henry V. Gelasius was forced to flee under duress from the army of Henry V, and took refuge in the monastery of Cluny, where he died in January of 1119.

In January 1885 the Foreign Legion's 4th Battalion ( chef de bataillon Vitalis ) was deployed to the French bridgehead at Keelung ( Jilong ) in Formosa ( Taiwan ), where it took part in the later battles of the Keelung Campaign.

In January, Blair took up the place at Wellington, where he spent the Spring term.

In other areas of the West Bank, transfer of powers took place pursuant to the Israel-PLO 28 September 1995 Interim Agreement, the Israel-PLO 15 January 1997 Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, the Israel-PLO 23 October 1998 Wye River Memorandum, and the 4 September 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Agreement.

The Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Mrs. Nino Burjanadze took over the position until the results were announced on January 5, 2008.

The NRC also imposed the Investment Policy Decree of 1975 — effective on January 1977 — that required 51 % Ghanaian equity participation in most foreign firms, but the government took 40 % in specified industries.

* 1502 2 January – Garcilaso de la Vega took possession of the town on behalf of the Queen Isabella I of Castile.