On this day: 22/01/613

Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.

On this day: 22/01/871

Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.

On this day: 22/01/1506

The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

On this day: 22/01/1517

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.

On this day: 22/01/1555

The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.

On this day: 22/01/1689

The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.

On this day: 22/01/1808

The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.

On this day: 22/01/1824

The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.

On this day: 22/01/1849

Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.

On this day: 22/01/1863

The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.