Editing January 29 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[War of the Sixth Coalition]]: France engages Russia and [[Prussia]] in the [[Battle of Brienne]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fremont-Barnes |first1=Gregory |title=The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire |date=2004 |publisher=Osprey |location=Oxford |isbn=1-84176-831-6 |pages=18, 291}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Stamford Raffles]] lands on the island of [[Singapore]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tan |first1=Eugene K. B. |title=Article 152 of the Singapore Constitution: The Past, Present, and Future of Multiracial Recognition, Inclusion, and Accommodation |journal=Beyond Bicentennial |date=July 2020 |pages=713–726 |doi=10.1142/9789811212512_0043|isbn=978-981-12-1250-5 |s2cid=225564640 }}</ref>
*[[1845]] &ndash; "[[The Raven]]" is published in ''[[The Evening Mirror]]'' in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, [[Edgar Allan Poe]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Dawn B. Sova|title=Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work |year=2007|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-0842-1|page=157}}</ref>
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Henry Clay]] introduces the [[Compromise of 1850]] to the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]].<ref>{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oao9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA95|year=1989|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=95}}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Queen Victoria]] issues a [[Warrant (law)|Warrant]] under the [[Royal sign-manual]] that establishes the [[Victoria Cross]] to recognise acts of valour by [[British Empire|British]] military personnel during the [[Crimean War]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Public Record Office|title=Lists and Indexes: Supplementary series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pT0ZjfKpqscC&pg=PA310|year=1964|publisher=Kraus Reprint|page=310|volume=8|issue=1}}</ref> 
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Kansas]] is admitted as the 34th [[U.S. state]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kansas. Supreme Court|author2=Elliot V. Banks|author3=William Craw Webb|title=Kansas Reports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjdQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA577|year=1891|publisher=Kansas state printing plant|page=577 |volume=46}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; The [[Bear River Massacre]]: A detachment of [[List of California Civil War Union units|California Volunteers]] led by Colonel [[Patrick Edward Connor]] engage the [[Shoshone]] at [[Bear River (Washington)|Bear River]], [[Washington Territory]], killing hundreds of men, women and children.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bear River Massacre Site, Idaho: Final Special Resource Study, Environmental Assessment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUc5t4-36DEC&pg=PA139|year=1996|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service|page=139}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Karl Benz]] patents the first successful [[gasoline]]-driven automobile.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nübel |first1=Otto |editor1-last=Barker |editor1-first=Theo |title=The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles: An International Centenary Tribute. |date=2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan Limited |location=London |isbn=978-1-349-08624-5 |page=59 |edition=2nd}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Lili{{okina}}uokalani]] is proclaimed the last monarch and only [[queen regnant]] of the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=KUALAPAI |first1=LYDIA |title=The Queen Writes Back: Lili'uokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen |journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures |date=2005 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=32–62 |doi=10.1353/ail.2005.0053 |jstor=20737264 |s2cid=161123895 |issn=0730-3238}}</ref>