What happened on 7 January?

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

1. 1978 Iranian Revolution Pro-Western Shah overthrown; Ayatollah Khomeini returns from exile; Islamic Republic founded; reshapes Middle East.
2. 1922 The Dáil approves the Treaty by seven votes After weeks of anguished debate, the Dáil accepts the Anglo-Irish Treaty 64 to 57 — dominion status and an oath to the King instead of the declared Republic. De Valera resigns and
3. 878 Alfred in the marshes of Athelney From a fort on an island in the Somerset Levels, the king wages a guerrilla winter — and gathers, by secret messengers, the militias of three shires. The later legend of the burnt
4. 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack Islamist gunmen kill 12 at the offices of the satirical magazine in Paris.
5. 1841 The iron steamer Nemesis shreds the war junks At Chuenpi, an iron-hulled paddle steamer built in secret by the East India Company destroys a fleet of Chinese war junks almost single-handedly — the industrial revolution arrivin
6. 1558 Loss of Calais Last English continental possession captured by France during the war on Spain's side; humiliating end of medieval English France.
7. 2025 Los Angeles wildfires Wind-driven fires raze whole Los Angeles neighbourhoods, among the costliest natural disasters in US history.
8. 1822 Liberia founded American Colonization Society resettles freed slaves on the West African coast.