Editing January 7 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; Fire destroys [[Jamestown, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Iron Worker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JJxIAAAAYAAJ|year=1960|publisher=Lynchburg Foundry Company|page=30}}</ref>
*[[1610]] &ndash; [[Galileo Galilei]] makes his first observation of the four [[Galilean moons]]: [[Ganymede (moon)|Ganymede]], [[Callisto (moon)|Callisto]], [[Io (moon)|Io]] and [[Europa (moon)|Europa]], although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Leverington|title=Babylon to Voyager and Beyond: A History of Planetary Astronomy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hpi202ybn8C&pg=PA78|date=29 May 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80840-8|pages=78}}</ref>
*[[1708]] – Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the [[Tsardom of Russia]]. It is one of the events of the [[Bashkir rebellion of 1704–1711]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Akmanov |year=1993 |first=Irek |url=https://ihtika.ru/book/akmanov-ig-bashkirskie-vosstaniya-xvii-nachala-xviii-vv-1993 |title=Башкирские восстания |page=153 |publisher=Китап |isbn=5-295-01126-7 |language=ru |access-date=9 September 2023 |archive-date=30 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730153203/https://ihtika.ru/book/akmanov-ig-bashkirskie-vosstaniya-xvii-nachala-xviii-vv-1993 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1708]] – Bashkir rebels [[Siege of Yelabuga (1708)|besiege]] [[Yelabuga]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Akmanov |first=Irek |url=https://ihtika.ru/book/akmanov-ig-bashkirskie-vosstaniya-17-18-vv-ufa-kitap-2016-376-s/text/155 |title=Башкирские восстания XVII–XVIII веков – феномен в истории народов Евразии |year=2016 |isbn=978-5-295-06448-7 |pages=156 |publisher=Kitap |language=ru |quote=Еще в начале января 1708 г. туда перебрался Кусюм во главе с 2 000 башкир и осадил Елабугу |access-date=27 August 2023 |archive-date=19 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819132635/https://ihtika.ru/book/akmanov-ig-bashkirskie-vosstaniya-17-18-vv-ufa-kitap-2016-376-s/text/155 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1738]] &ndash; A peace treaty is signed between [[Baji Rao I|Peshwa Bajirao]] and [[Jai Singh II]] following [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha]] victory in the [[Battle of Bhopal]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Bhagavānadāsa|last=Gupta|title=A History of the Rise and Fall of the Marathas in Bundelkhand, 1731-1804: Based on Original Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2YeAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Neha Prakashan|page=225}}</ref>
*[[1782]] &ndash; The first American commercial bank, the [[Bank of North America]], opens.<ref>{{cite book|title=Life of Robert Morris, the Great Financier: With an Engraving and Description of the Celebrated House, Partly Erected in Chestnut Street, Between Seventh and Eighth, South Side|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-sZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6|year=1841|publisher=Desilver|pages=6}}</ref>
*[[1785]] &ndash; Frenchman [[Jean-Pierre Blanchard]] and American [[John Jeffries]] travel from [[Dover|Dover, England]], to [[Calais|Calais, France]], in a gas [[balloon]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Christopher Hatton|last=Turnor|title=Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere|url=https://archive.org/details/astracastraexper00turnrich|year=1865|publisher=Chapman and Hall|pages=[https://archive.org/details/astracastraexper00turnrich/page/17 17]}}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; {{HMS|Beagle}}, with [[Charles Darwin]] on board, drops anchor off the [[Chonos Archipelago]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles|last=Darwin|author-link=Charles Darwin|title=The Voyage of the Beagle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xRMTQ-YYlLkC&pg=PA271|year=1997|publisher=Wordsworth Editions|isbn=978-1-85326-476-4|pages=271}}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; The [[Kingstree jail fire]] kills 22 freedmen in [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]]-era [[South Carolina]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1867-01-16 |title=DOMESTIC NEWS.; Death and Obsequies of Hon. Arthur P. Hayne. The District Suffrage Law as Passed. The Burning of the Kingstree, S. C., Jail--Heartrending Scenes Attending the Death of the inmates--Ineffectual Attempts to Save Them. (Published 1867) |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1867/01/16/archives/domestic-news-death-and-obsequies-of-hon-arthur-p-hayne-the.html |access-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Thomas Edison]] makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/00694192/|title=Edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze, January 7, 1894|website=Library of Congress|access-date=13 April 2020}}</ref> On the same day, his employee, [[William Kennedy Dickson]], receives a [[patent]] for [[film|motion picture film]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Max|last1=Thurlow|first2=Clifford|last2=Thurlow|author-link2=Clifford Thurlow|title=Making Short Films, Third Edition: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FalLAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA394|date=18 July 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-85785-387-5|pages=394}}</ref>