History of 22 January
- 565 Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus
- 871 Battle of Basing: Danish invasion army beats Saxon Ethelred of Wessex
- 1371 King Robert II of Scotland is crowned, becoming the first monarch of the House of Stewart (1371-90)
- 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican
- 1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar, Alsace
- 1517 Ottoman forces take Cairo, capital of the Mamluk Sultanate
- 1849 The Siege of Multan ended in the Second Anglo-Sikh War
- 2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country’s first indigenous president.
- 2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
- 2009 Barack Obama orders the closure of the Guantanamo prison camp
- 2010 Stock Markets Fall
- 2010 Some Guantánamo detainees are to be charged in the United States. Others will face military tribunals or be held indefinitely
- 2011 Work Begins on Underwater Fiber Optics Cable to Cuba
- 2012 Former Penn State Football Coach Dies
- 2013 UN Extends North Korea Sanctions
- 2014 Mandela Statue Rabbit Removal
- 2015 – An explosion near a civilian trolley-bus in Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.
Celebrating Birthday’s Today
- John Hurt
- Namrata Shirodkar
- Steve Perry