On this day: 04/01/-46
Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
On this day: 04/01/871
Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
On this day: 04/01/1649
English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.
On this day: 04/01/1717
The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance in an attempt to maintain the Treaty of Utrecht; Britain having signed a preliminary alliance with France on November 28 (November 17, 1716).
On this day: 04/01/1762
Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War.
On this day: 04/01/1798
Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.
On this day: 04/01/1853
After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
On this day: 04/01/1854
The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
On this day: 04/01/1863
The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
On this day: 04/01/1878
Russo-Turkish War (1877-78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
Fact: Percentage of American men who say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again: 80%
Fact: The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour
Fact: Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
Fact: The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia
On this day: 03/01/69
The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
On this day: 03/01/250
Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
On this day: 03/01/1521
Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
On this day: 03/01/1653
By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
On this day: 03/01/1749
Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
On this day: 03/01/1749
The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
On this day: 03/01/1777
American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
On this day: 03/01/1815
Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
On this day: 03/01/1833
Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
On this day: 03/01/1848
Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
Fact: Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales
Fact: The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail
Fact: A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.