On January 28, history records 48 notable events, 175 famous births and 99 deaths, spanning the years 661 to 1624.
Events on this day include: The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. (661); Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire. (814).
Notable people born on January 28 include Prince Toneri (676), Joan II of Navarre (1312), Guy XIV de Laval (1406).
Notable figures who died on this day include Guntram (592), Charlemagne (814), Zhou Dewei (919).
Events on 28 January 48
See all →The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.
Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Robert de Comines, the Earl of Northumbria, is killed while attempting to subdue rebels in Durham, England. This leads to the Harrying of the North by William the Conqueror.
King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
Birthdays on 28 January 175
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Deaths on 28 January 99
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