Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 5
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This is a list of selected January 5 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.January 5: Twelfth Night (Western Christianity)
- 1477 – Burgundian Wars: Charles the Bold (pictured), the Duke of Burgundy, died at the Battle of Nancy, eventually leading to the partition of Burgundy between France and the House of Habsburg.
- 1527 – Felix Manz, co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning, becoming one of the first martyrs of the Radical Reformation.
- 1968 – The Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček came to power in Czechoslovakia, beginning a political reform known as "Socialism with a human face" that introduced a period of political liberalization that still enabled the Communist Party to maintain real power.
- 2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, was discovered by a team led by Michael E. Brown using images originally taken on October 21, 2003 at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, USA.
