歷史上的January 21

　　January 21：Feast Day of Saint Agnes (Christianity); Flag Day in Quebec

　　January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining until the end of the year (345 in leap years).

　　Events：

　　763 – The Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa ends in a decisive Abbasid victory.

　　1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.

　　1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris

　　1720 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.

　　1749 – The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire. It is rebuilt in 1754.

　　1774 – Abdul Hamid I became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.

　　1789 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed inBoston.

　　1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed byguillotine.

　　1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.

　　1864 – The Tauranga Campaign begins during the New Zealand Wars.