What happened on 24 January?

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

1. 41 Reign of Claudius Emperor under whom the Roman conquest of Britain began.
2. 1848 California Gold Rush Discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill triggers mass migration.
3. 76 Born: Hadrian 14th Roman Emperor (117-138). Consolidated empire on defensible borders — most famously the wall across northern Britain that bears his name. Patron of Greek culture and architect-
4. 1984 Apple Macintosh launched First mass-market computer with a graphical user interface and mouse.
5. 1862 Born: Edith Wharton American novelist; The Age of Innocence.
6. 1966 Indira Gandhi's first premiership Bank nationalisation, the 1971 war and Bangladesh, India's first nuclear test — and the Emergency that cost her power.
7. 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank Royal Navy battlecruisers ambush German raiders.
8. 1875 Saint-Saëns's Danse macabre Death tunes his fiddle at midnight and the skeletons dance until the cock crows — the tone poem's xylophone rattles like bones.
9. 1975 Bachchan in Deewaar Two brothers from the Bombay docks — one a smuggler, one a policeman — in Salim–Javed's taut drama; Bachchan's dockworker-turned-gangster defines the decade.