Events on 22 January 47
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Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
Year 871
Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by king Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
Year 1517
The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
Year 1689
The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
Year 1808
The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
Year 1849
Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
Year 1863
The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
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