Events in History
- Jan 6 The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings
- Jan 21 Sweden and Prussia sign a peace treaty ending hostilities between them during the Great Northern War
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Deaths in History
- Jan 31 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
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