Editing January 3 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1653]] &ndash; By the [[Coonan Cross Oath]], the [[Eastern Christianity|Eastern Church]] in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.<ref>{{cite book|first=Joseph|last=Thekkedath|title=The troubled Days of Francis Garcia S. J. Archbishop of Cranganore (1641-1659)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=chkD52PhJZUC&pg=PA60|year=1972|publisher=Gregorian Biblical BookShop|isbn=978-88-7652-158-4|pages=60}}</ref>
*[[1749]] &ndash; [[Benning Wentworth]] issues the first of the [[New Hampshire Grants]], leading to the establishment of [[Vermont]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Alfred Billings|last=Street|author-link=Alfred Billings Street|title=The Council of Revision of the State of New York: its history, a history of the courts with which its members were connected, biographical sketches of its members, and its vetoes|url=https://archive.org/details/councilrevision00stregoog|year=1859|publisher=W. Gould|pages=[https://archive.org/details/councilrevision00stregoog/page/n99 94]}}</ref>
*  1749  &ndash; The first issue of ''[[Berlingske]]'', Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.berlingskemedia.dk/historien|title=1749. En borgerlig københavneravis er født|work=Berlingske Media |access-date=2019-05-04|language=da|trans-title=1749. A nonsocialist Copenhagen newspaper is born|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504171457/https://www.berlingskemedia.dk/historien|archive-date=2019-05-04|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1777]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: American forces under General [[George Washington]] defeat British forces at the [[Battle of Princeton]], helping boost [[Patriot (American Revolution)|patriot]] morale.<ref>{{cite book|first=Mark|last=Maloy|title=Victory Or Death: The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 – January 3 1777|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeyvAQAACAAJ|date=12 March 2018|publisher=Savas Beatie|isbn=978-1-61121-381-2}}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against [[Prussia]] and Russia.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lists and Indexes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFIMAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=138}}</ref>
*[[1833]] &ndash; Captain James Onslow, in the ''Clio'', [[Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833)|reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=M. B. R.|last1=Cawkell|first2=Mary|last2=Cawkell|title=The Falkland Islands: by M.B.R. Cawkell, D. H. Maling and E. M. Cawkell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7p4AAAAMAAJ|access-date=1 November 2011|year=1960|publisher=Macmillan|page=43|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627152904/http://books.google.com/books?id=x7p4AAAAMAAJ|archive-date=27 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]] is sworn in as the first [[president of Liberia]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Liberia|author-link1=Liberia|first2=Thomas McCants|last2=Stewart|author-link2=Thomas McCants Stewart|title=Revised Statutes of the Republic of Liberia: Being a Revision of the Statutes from the Organization of the Government in 1848 to and Including the Acts of the Legislature of 1910-1911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJ4rAQAAMAAJ|year=1928|publisher=Établissements Busson|page=13}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Delaware]] votes not to secede from the United States.<ref>{{cite book|first=Patience|last=Essah|title=A House Divided: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3ZLDt5yes8C&pg=PA161|year=1996|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-1681-1|pages=161}}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Meiji Restoration]] in Japan: The [[Tokugawa shogunate]] is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.<ref>{{cite book|first=Sir Ernest|last=Satow|author-link=Sir Ernest Satow|title=A Diplomat In Japan|year=2007|page=353|publisher=Stone Bridge Press |isbn=978-1-933330-16-7}}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; Construction work begins on the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] in New York, United States.<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=McCullough|author-link=David McCullough|title=The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge|url=https://archive.org/details/greatbridge00mccu_0|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-671-45711-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/greatbridge00mccu_0/page/564 564]}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; In the [[Battle of Bapaume (1871)|Battle of Bapaume]], an engagement in the [[Franco-Prussian War]], General [[Louis Faidherbe]]'s forces bring about a Prussian retreat.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michelin and Cie Publisher|author-link=Michelin|title=The Somme, Volume 1 The First Battle of the Somme (1916-1917) (Illustrations): (Albert, Bapaume, Péronne)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EuNUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT107|year=1919|publisher=Michelin & Cie|pages=107– |id=GGKEY:4PH9PZRJ3PE}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Sino-French War]]: Beginning of the [[Battle of Núi Bop]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lecomte|first=Jean|title=Lang-Son: combats retraite et negociations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSw6AQAAMAAJ|publisher=H. Charles-Lavauzelle|date=1895|page=149|access-date=2019-05-31}}</ref>