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On 22nd January 1556 -  Shaanxi Earthquake - deadliest  ever recorded kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China: https://www.facebook.com/pages/History-and-future-world/402121129963935 The tremor happened close Huaxian, Shaanxi (once in the past Shensi), China, around 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. More than 830,000 individuals were executed. Harm stretched out as far away as Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi (some time ago Shansi) and around 270 miles (430 km) northeast of the epicenter. There are felt reports as far away as Liuyang in Hunan, more than 500 miles (800 km) away. Topographical impacts reported with this tremor included ground crevices, elevate, subsidence, sandblows, liquefaction and avalanches. Most towns in the harm range reported city dividers broken down, most to all houses crumpled and a considerable lot of the towns reported ground gaps with water spouting out (ie. liquefaction and sandblows). Gu, et.al. s...
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English king Edward III proclaimed king of France:

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ON 26TH JANUARY 1340 -  English king  Edward III  proclaimed king of France: Since the most punctual days of human governments there were wars over who would get to expect — or acquire — the ability to control them. French King Charles IV passed on without a child to take the throne as his successor. At the same time he did have a little girl — she wedded King Edward II of England and conceived a child, named Edward III. This made youthful Edward III, grandson of Charles IV, by law the real beneficiary to the throne of France. During a period when he was lord of England.  On this day, January 26, 1340, Edward III pronounces himself to be the legitimate lord of France. Commonly, the idea of serving an outside ruler did not satisfy the French privileged much. They questioned Edward's case focused around their elucidation of the salic law that administered force progression. So started the Hundred Years War.  The French question originated from what...
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1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy" is published

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The most amazing thing happens on 21st January was that : "on 21st January 1789 - 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy" is published The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) is an 18th-century American sentimental  novel written in epistolary form by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel.[1] Published by Isaiah Thomas in Boston on January 21, 1789,[2] The Power of Sympathy was Brown's first novel. The characters' struggles illustrate the dangers of seduction and the pitfalls of giving in to one's passions, while advocating the moral education of women and the use of rational thinking as ways to prevent the consequences of such actions https://www.facebook.com/pages/History-and-future-world/402121129963935 Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events,  The Power of Sympathy  (1789) and  The Coquette  (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown...
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