What happened on 6 January?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 2021 January 6 Capitol attack Pro-Trump mob storms the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
2. 1066 Harold Godwinson is crowned king of England The day after Edward the Confessor's death — and probably in the same abbey where he was buried that morning — England's most powerful earl is crowned Harold II. The indecent speed
3. 878 Twelfth Night attack at Chippenham Guthrum breaks the mid-winter truce and falls on the royal hall at Chippenham during the Christmas feast — and Wessex, the last English kingdom, collapses in a night. Its king esca
4. 1967 Born: A. R. Rahman Composer; Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire score.
5. 1977 Charter 77 Provoked by the trial of a psychedelic rock band, 242 citizens — spokesman: a banned playwright named Václav Havel — sign a declaration politely asking the state to honour the huma
6. 1449 Reign of Constantine XI Palaiologos Last Roman emperor; killed defending the walls of Constantinople against Mehmed II's army.
7. 1842 Retreat from Kabul The Kabul garrison and its followers — 16,000 people — are destroyed in the winter passes; one army surgeon rides into Jalalabad.
8. 1540 Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves to secure a Protestant alliance, recoils from his bride, and has the marriage annulled by July — a fiasco that costs Thomas Cromwell his head.