Editing January 8 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1735]] &ndash; The premiere of [[George Frideric Handel]]'s ''[[Ariodante]]'' takes place at the [[Royal Opera House]], [[Covent Garden]].<ref>{{cite book|first=William J.|last=Burling|title=A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMQJxeNpHR0C&pg=PA167|year=1992|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3451-6|page=167}}</ref>
*[[1746]] &ndash; [[Jacobite rising of 1745|Second Jacobite rising]]: [[Charles Edward Stuart|Bonnie Prince Charlie]] occupies [[Stirling]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Carolly|last=Erickson|author-link=Carolly Erickson|title=Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74pnAAAAMAAJ|date=January 1993|publisher=Robson Books|isbn=978-0-86051-712-2|page=204}}</ref>
*[[1790]] &ndash; [[George Washington]] delivers the first [[State of the Union address]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Arjuna|last1=Tuzzi|first2=Martina|last2=Benešová|first3=Ján|last3=Macutek|title=Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oaALCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158|date=16 October 2015|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-042029-6|page=158}}</ref>
*[[1806]] &ndash; The [[Dutch Cape Colony]] in southern Africa becomes the British [[Cape Colony]] as a result of the [[Battle of Blaauwberg]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Charles J.|last=Becker|title=Guide to the Transvaal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecoNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13|year=1878|publisher=J. Dollard|page=13}}</ref>
*[[1811]] &ndash; [[Charles Deslondes]] leads [[1811 German Coast uprising|an unsuccessful slave revolt]] in the North American settlements of [[St. Charles Parish, Louisiana|St. Charles]] and [[St. James Parish, Louisiana|St. James, Louisiana]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Nicholas J.|last=Santoro|title=Atlas of Slavery and Civil Rights: An Annotated Chronicle of the Passage from Slavery and Segregation to Civil Rights and Equality Under the Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmTSSTO0gIgC&pg=PA33|year=2006|isbn=978-0-595-38390-0|page=33|publisher=iUniverse }}</ref>
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[War of 1812]]: [[Battle of New Orleans]]: [[Andrew Jackson]] leads American forces in victory over the British.<ref>{{cite book|title=DeBow's Review ...: Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress & Resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TvFEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA409|year=1846|publisher=J. D. B. De Bow|page=409}}</ref>
*[[1828]] &ndash; The [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party of the United States]] is organized.<ref>{{cite book|first=Patricia Lee|last=Sykes|title=Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHl1AAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=University Press of Kansas|isbn=978-0-7006-1017-4|page=193}}</ref>
*[[1835]] &ndash; US President [[Andrew Jackson]] announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the [[National debt of the United States#History|United States national debt to zero]] for the only time.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|author-link=United States Congress|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UguOmnBiL_kC&pg=SL1-PA1297|year=1945|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=1297}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Second Battle of Springfield]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Samuel Hawkins Marshall|last=Byers|title=Iowa in War Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYkNFuHHvx0C|year=1888|publisher=W.D. Condit & Company|page=515}}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; The United States Congress passes the bill to allow [[African American]] men the right to vote in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Hanes Jr|last1=Walton|author-link1=Hanes Walton Jr.|first2=Sherman|last2=Puckett|first3=Donald R Jr|last3=Deskins|author-link3=Donald R. Deskins Jr.|title=The African American Electorate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8zVVp8qJ5sC&pg=PA205|date=20 July 2012|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-0-87289-508-9|page=205}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Crazy Horse]] and his warriors fight their last battle against the [[United States Cavalry]] at [[Battle of Wolf Mountain|Wolf Mountain]], [[Montana Territory]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Nelson A. Miles, Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Wolf Mountains|last=Pearson|first=Jeffrey V.|url=http://visitmt.com/history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/wolfmountain.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020419224810/http://visitmt.com/history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/wolfmountain.htm|archive-date=2002-04-19|journal=Montana The Magazine of Western History|volume=51|number=1|date=Winter 2001|pages=53–67|publisher=Montana Historical Society Press|location=Helena, MT|jstor=4520376}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Herman Hollerith]] is issued US [[patent]] #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his [[punched card]] calculator.<ref>{{cite book|first=Richard C.|last=Dorf|author-link=Richard C. Dorf|title=The Electrical Engineering Handbook, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qP7HvuakLgEC&pg=PA2092|date=26 September 1997|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4200-4976-3|page=2092}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; President [[William McKinley]]  places [[Alaska]] under military rule.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=10|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>