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Browse Historical Events by Day: What Happened on January 2nd?

Discover major events and cultural milestones that happened on this day — organized by year. Dates for earlier events may be approximate.

6 BCE, January 2

Jesus is presented at the Temple in Jerusalem in accordance with Jewish law.

565 CE, January 2

Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as Eastern Roman Emperor.

1141 CE, January 2

Pope Innocent II is elected.

1314 CE, January 2

Pope Clement V sends a letter to King Philip IV of France regarding the suppression of the Templars.

1424 CE, January 2

The Treaty of Melun is signed, temporarily ending hostilities between France and England.

1444 CE, January 2

The Peace of Szeged is signed, ending the 1443-1444 Crusade of Varna between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.

1448 CE, January 2

Christopher of Bavaria, King of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, dies.

1455 CE, January 2

The Gutenberg Bible is completed, marking a pivotal moment in the history of printing.

1462 CE, January 2

The Ottomans capture Constantinople's strategically important region, the Morea, completing their conquest of the Byzantine Empire.

1492 CE, January 2

Granada, the last stronghold of the Moorish kingdom in Spain surrenders to Spain ending the Reconquest led by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II and Isabella I

1497 CE, January 2

Vasco da Gama departs from Lisbon on his first voyage to India.

1504 CE, January 2

King Ferdinand II of Aragon abandons the Kingdom of Naples, leaving it under the control of Louis XII of France.

1510 CE, January 2

King Henry VIII of England orders the burning of all Lutheran books.

1563 CE, January 2

The Council of Trent concludes its meetings, marking the end of the Council's discussions on church reform.

1626 CE, January 2

The Dutch buy Manhattan Island from Native Americans for trinkets and tools, founding New Amsterdam.

1703 CE, January 2

Tsar Peter the Great founds Saint Petersburg, Russia, as the new Russian capital.

1777 CE, January 2

American forces defeat the British at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in the American Revolutionary War.

1788 CE, January 2

Georgia becomes the fourth State of the Union.

1823 CE, January 2

Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from Mexico, initiating American colonization.

1870 CE, January 2

The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City begins.

1890 CE, January 2

Alice Sanger becomes the first female White House staffer.

2004 CE, January 2

NASA's spacecraft Stardust flies within 155 miles from the comet P/Wild 2, and collects dust grains and the cometary material. Stardust sealed its collected matter inside a sample reentry capsule, which separated from Stardust and landed in the Utah desert on Jan. 15, 2006. They were later revealed to contain the amino acid glycine, an essential building block of life. More

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