What happened on 22 January?

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

1. 1901 Victorian era ends Conventional end of Victorian era.
2. 1517 Ottoman conquest of Egypt Selim I defeats Mamluks at Ridanieh; Egypt absorbed into Ottoman Empire; Ottomans become protectors of the Holy Cities.
3. 1879 Battle of Isandlwana Zulu impi annihilates a British force in southern Africa; biggest defeat of British arms by a non-industrial army in the 19th century.
4. 1973 Roe v. Wade decision Supreme Court legalises abortion nationwide.
5. 1879 Battle of Rorke's Drift ~150 British soldiers hold off ~4,000 Zulu warriors a day after Isandlwana; eleven Victoria Crosses awarded.
6. 1901 Death of Queen Victoria Victoria dies at Osborne House aged 81 after a 63-year reign; her son Edward VII succeeds.
7. 1901 Reign of Edward VII Reign of Edward VII (1901-1910) as monarch of England (later Britain/UK).
8. 1828 The Duke of Wellington's first premiership The victor of Waterloo concedes Catholic emancipation, then breaks his party by refusing parliamentary reform.
9. 1924 Ramsay MacDonald's first premiership Britain's first Labour government, a minority ministry lasting nine months.
10. 1963 Élysée Treaty Franco-German friendship De Gaulle and Adenauer sign treaty of friendship.
11. 1905 Bloody Sunday (1905) Imperial troops fire on a peaceful workers' procession to the Winter Palace, shattering faith in the Tsar and igniting the 1905 Revolution.
12. 1788 Born: Lord Byron Romantic poet of Childe Harold and Don Juan; died fighting for Greek independence.
13. 1879 The siege of Eshowe On the same day as Isandlwana, the coastal column digs in at a mission station at Eshowe — and is cut off for ten weeks, signalling to the coast by heliograph while fever kills mor
14. 1924 First Labour government in Britain Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain's first Labour government, marking the party's arrival as a party of power.
15. 1863 January Uprising Poland's longest anti-Russian insurrection fights a guerrilla war for eighteen months; reprisals include mass Siberian exile and the erasure of Polish institutions.
16. 1824 Asante defeat the British at Nsamankow Asante kill British governor MacCarthy; first major African defeat of a British army in West Africa.