Editing January 11 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1654]] &ndash; [[Arauco War]]: A Spanish army [[battle of Río Bueno|is defeated]] by local [[Huilliche people|Mapuche-Huilliches]] as it tries to cross [[Bueno River]] in [[Zona Sur|Southern Chile]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Historia general de Chile|last=Barros Arana|first=Diego|publisher=Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes|location=Alicante|url=http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/historia-general-de-chile-tomo-cuarto--0/html/ff2f1efc-82b1-11df-acc7-002185ce6064_69.html#I_15_|edition=Digital edition based on the second edition of 2000|volume=Tomo cuarto|language=es|chapter=Capítulo XIV|author-link=Diego Barros Arana|pages=346–347}}</ref>
*[[1759]] &ndash; The first American [[life insurance]] company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of [[Unum|Unum Group]]), is incorporated in [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Hundred Years Old|work=The Weekly Underwriter|date=February 3, 1917|page=146|hdl=2027/uc1.c2605613?urlappend=%3Bseq=186|access-date=January 11, 2020|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2605613?urlappend=%3Bseq=186}}</ref>
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[William Herschel]] [[Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons|discovers]] [[Titania (moon)|Titania]] and [[Oberon (moon)|Oberon]], two [[Moons of Uranus|moon]]s of [[Uranus]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Patrick|title=The Data Book of Astronomy|location=Bristol, U.K.|publisher=Institute of Physics Publishing|date=2000|isbn=9780750306201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDDpBwAAQBAJ|page=193}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; The [[Michigan Territory]] is created.<ref>{{cite book|author=Federal Writers Program|title=Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3DKLhheZht0C|page=632|isbn=9781623760212}}</ref>
*[[1820]] &ndash; The [[Great Savannah Fire of 1820]] destroys over 400 buildings in [[Savannah, Georgia]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Coulter |first=E. Merton |author-link=E. Merton Coulter |date=March 1939 |title=The Great Savannah Fire of 1820 |journal=[[The Georgia Historical Quarterly]] |publisher=[[Georgia Historical Society]] |volume=XXIII |issue=1 |pages=1–27 |issn=2169-852X |jstor=40576606 |oclc=565102618}}</ref>
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Taiping Rebellion]]: [[Hong Xiuquan]] proclaims the [[Taiping Heavenly Kingdom]], starting the [[Jintian Uprising]].<ref name="Fairbank2006">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=nBDC2cqb6I0C&pg=RA2-PA206 China: A New History]'', John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman. Harvard, 2006.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Jian |first1=Youwen |title=The Taiping Revolutionary Movement |date=1973 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |page=65}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Alabama]] secedes from the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Morel Moxley|author2=Emily Moxley|title=Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pT1AAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA14|year=2002|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-1118-6|pages=14}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; American Civil War: The three-day [[Battle of Arkansas Post (1863)|Battle of Arkansas Post]] concludes as General [[John Alexander McClernand|John McClernand]] and Admiral [[David Dixon Porter]] capture Fort Hindman and secure control over the [[Arkansas River]] for the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Christ|first=Mark K.|title=Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State|location=Norman, Okla.|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=2014|isbn=9780806144337|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDoVtwDPuBsC|pages=64–80}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Terry L.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Civil War|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2011|isbn=9780810879539|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ET6CDfczq9gC|page=xxxi}}</ref>
*  1863 &ndash; American Civil War: {{ship|CSS|Alabama}} [[Action off Galveston Light|encounters and sinks]] the {{USS|Hatteras|1861|6}} off Galveston Lighthouse in [[Texas]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Terry L.|title=Historical Dictionary of the Civil War|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=2011|isbn=9780810879539|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ET6CDfczq9gC|page=xxxi}}</ref>
*[[1879]] &ndash; The [[Anglo-Zulu War]] begins.<ref>{{cite book|last=Knight|first=Ian|title=Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War|location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.|publisher=Pen & Sword Books|date=2008|isbn=9781844158010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1Z-AwAAQBAJ|page=ix}}</ref>