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On January 27, 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.

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Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.

AD 98 (XCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Traianus. The denomination AD 98 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

People

Born on January 27

Park Seong-hoon 2003– South Korean footballer (born 2003)
Morgan Gibbs-White 2000– English footballer (born 2000)
Aurélien Tchouaméni 2000– French footballer (born 2000)
Devin Druid 1998– American actor (born 1998)
Braeden Lemasters 1996– American actor and musician (born 1996)
Harrison Reed 1995– English footballer (born 1995)
Desiree Becker 1994– German politician (born 1994)
Jack Stephens 1994– English footballer (born 1994)
Stefano Pettinari 1992– Italian footballer (born 1992)
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Christian Bickel 1991– German footballer
Julio Teherán 1991– Colombian baseball player (born 1991)
Tim Beckham 1990– American baseball player (born 1990)
Alberto Botía 1989– Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Kerlon 1988– Brazilian footballer (born 1988)
Katy Rose 1987– American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1987)
Anton Shunin 1987– Russian footballer (born 1987)
Johan Petro 1986– French basketball player (born 1986)
Ruben Amorim 1985– Portuguese football manager (born 1985)

People

Died on January 27

Andy Devine English actor (1942–2022) Cloris Leachman American actress (1926–2021)
Nunuk Nuraini Food scientist who invented Indomie brand mi goreng flavour instant noodles
Lina Ben Mhenni Tunisian political activist (1983–2020)
Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau German socialite (1958–2019)
Ingvar Kamprad Swedish businessman (1926–2018)
Mort Walker American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018)
Emmanuelle Riva French actress (1927–2017)
Arthur H. Rosenfeld American physicist
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Carlos Loyzaga Filipino basketball player, coach and politician
Rocky Bridges American baseball player (1927–2015)
David Landau British/Israeli journalist and newspaper editor
Joseph Rotman Canadian businessperson and philanthropist
Charles Hard Townes American physicist (1915–2015)
Larry Winters American professional wrestler and trainer
Pete Seeger American musician and social activist (1919–2014)
Epimaco Velasco Filipino lawyer and politician (1935-2014)
Paul Zorner 20th-century German fighter pilot

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Every January 27 on record

  1. 98 Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.

    Calendar year

    AD 98 (XCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Traianus. The denomination AD 98 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 417 Pope Innocent I declares Pelagius and his follower Caelestius excommunicated unless they return to orthodoxy.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 401 to 417

    Pope Innocent I was the bishop of Rome from 401 to his death on 12 March 417. From the beginning of his papacy, he was seen as the general arbitrator of ecclesiastical disputes in both the East and the West. He confirmed the prerogatives of the Archbishop of Thessalonica, and issued a decretal on disciplinary matters referred to him by the Bishop of Rouen.

  3. 532 Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

    532 Byzantine revolt against Justinian I

    The Nika riots, Nika revolt or Nika sedition took place against Byzantine emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week in 532 AD. They are often regarded as the most violent riots in the city's history, with nearly half of Constantinople being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.

  4. 945 The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

    Byzantine emperor from 924 to 945

    Stephen Lekapenos or Lecapenus was the second son of the Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, and co-emperor from 924 to 945. With his younger brother Constantine, he deposed Romanos I in December 944, but they were overthrown and exiled a few weeks later by their brother in law, the legitimate emperor Constantine VII. Stephen lived out his life in exile on the island of Lesbos, where he died on Easter 963.

  5. 1186 Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.

    Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197

    Henry VI, a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his death. From 1194 he was also King of Sicily as the husband and co-ruler of Queen Constance I.

  6. 1302 Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.
  7. 1343 Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus, laying out the scriptural justification for indulgences, identifying only the Pope and episcopate as capable of accessing the treasury of merit, and establishing a jubilee year every half century.
  8. 1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
  9. 1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
  10. 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, concluding his third Christmas season in Leipzig on the Third Sunday after Epiphany.
  11. 1759 Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.
  12. 1776 American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  13. 1785 The University of Georgia is founded, the first state-chartered public university in the United States.
  14. 1820 A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
  15. 1825 The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
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  1. 1868 Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
  2. 1869 Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  3. 1874 Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.
  4. 1880 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
  5. 1916 World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.
  6. 1918 Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
  7. 1924 Six days after his death, Vladimir Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.
  8. 1927 Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  9. 1928 Bundaberg tragedy: a diphtheria vaccine is contaminated with Staph. aureus bacterium, resulting in the deaths of twelve children in the Australian town of Bundaberg.
  10. 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
  11. 1943 World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
  12. 1944 World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
  13. 1945 World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  14. 1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
  15. 1961 The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.

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