January 26th in History
January 22nd – On this Day in History
871 The Battle of Basing, in the then kingdom of Wessex (now Hampshire) following an invasion of Danes.
The Saxon army, led by King Ethelred, was beaten but, like its predecessors, this was an indecisive battle. Ethelred died in April and was succeeded by Alfred the Great. Much of King Alfred's 28 year reign was taken up with the Danish conflict.
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…1521 – Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms in Worms, Germany, which addresses Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation The Diet of Worms was an imperial council that was convened to address Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. It was presided over by Emperor Charles V. Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet to renounce or reaffirm his views on the Catholic Church.
When Luther appeared before the assembly on April 17, he refused to recant his writings. The Diet of Worms led to the Edict of Worms, declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and banning his literature. This event was crucial in the Protestant Reformation, which led to the division of Christianity into Protestantism and Catholicism.
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On 22nd January 1853, six crew members of the Rhyl Lifeboat were drowned when their boat, Gwylan y Mor capsized whilst they were going to the aid of a vessel in distress on the Hoyle Bank off the Dee Estuary. The current Rhyl crew are in the process of organising a permanent memorial to the men who were lost.
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, began on January 11th when the British Army, invaded the Zulu kingdom in an attempt to extend British control in South Africa, as it was realised that this could only be achieved when the Zulu's with its standing army of 40,000, had been suppressed.
The first major encounter was the Battle of Isandlwana on January 22nd 1879, where a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors equipped mainly with the traditional assegai iron spears attacked and overwhelmed a portion of the British army consisting of about 1,800 men and was one of the British army's worst and bloodiest ever defeats.
As the battle drew to a close several Zulu regiments reached the Tugela River chasing the few escaping British and buoyed by their success crossed the Tugela and attempted to capture the British base at the river crossing called Rorke’s Drift and which was manned by a company of approximately 90, mainly Welsh infantrymen, with the entire garrison's strength being around 155.
Source-The History of Wales.
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1771Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands was ceded to Britain, by the Spanish.
January 22 1977
Peter Green, who had earlier left Fleetwood Mac, was institutionalized after firing a pistol in the general direction of a delivery boy who was attempting to deliver a $30,000 royalty check. Green had renounced Rock and Roll in 1970 and didn't want the money. He later worked as a hospital porter and a gravedigger, but came back in 1979 to record "In the Skies", which reached #32 in the UK.
871 The Battle of Basing, in the then kingdom of Wessex (now Hampshire) following an invasion of Danes.
The Saxon army, led by King Ethelred, was beaten but, like its predecessors, this was an indecisive battle. Ethelred died in April and was succeeded by Alfred the Great. Much of King Alfred's 28 year reign was taken up with the Danish conflict.
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…1521 – Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms in Worms, Germany, which addresses Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation The Diet of Worms was an imperial council that was convened to address Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. It was presided over by Emperor Charles V. Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet to renounce or reaffirm his views on the Catholic Church.
When Luther appeared before the assembly on April 17, he refused to recant his writings. The Diet of Worms led to the Edict of Worms, declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and banning his literature. This event was crucial in the Protestant Reformation, which led to the division of Christianity into Protestantism and Catholicism.
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On 22nd January 1853, six crew members of the Rhyl Lifeboat were drowned when their boat, Gwylan y Mor capsized whilst they were going to the aid of a vessel in distress on the Hoyle Bank off the Dee Estuary. The current Rhyl crew are in the process of organising a permanent memorial to the men who were lost.
Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, began on January 11th when the British Army, invaded the Zulu kingdom in an attempt to extend British control in South Africa, as it was realised that this could only be achieved when the Zulu's with its standing army of 40,000, had been suppressed.
The first major encounter was the Battle of Isandlwana on January 22nd 1879, where a Zulu force of some 20,000 warriors equipped mainly with the traditional assegai iron spears attacked and overwhelmed a portion of the British army consisting of about 1,800 men and was one of the British army's worst and bloodiest ever defeats.
As the battle drew to a close several Zulu regiments reached the Tugela River chasing the few escaping British and buoyed by their success crossed the Tugela and attempted to capture the British base at the river crossing called Rorke’s Drift and which was manned by a company of approximately 90, mainly Welsh infantrymen, with the entire garrison's strength being around 155.
Source-The History of Wales.
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1771Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands was ceded to Britain, by the Spanish.
January 22 1977
Peter Green, who had earlier left Fleetwood Mac, was institutionalized after firing a pistol in the general direction of a delivery boy who was attempting to deliver a $30,000 royalty check. Green had renounced Rock and Roll in 1970 and didn't want the money. He later worked as a hospital porter and a gravedigger, but came back in 1979 to record "In the Skies", which reached #32 in the UK.
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