What happened on 29 January?

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

1. 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen Karl Benz patents the first automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine; modern motoring begins.
2. 1929 Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front Defining German anti-war novel of WW1.
3. 1845 Poe's The Raven Poem of mournful refrain — 'Nevermore'.
4. 1877 Satsuma Rebellion Last samurai uprising under Saigō Takamori, crushed by the new conscript imperial army; cements modernisation.
5. 1820 Reign of George IV Reign of George IV (1820-1830) as monarch of England (later Britain/UK).
6. 1964 Dr. Strangelove released Stanley Kubrick's nuclear-war satire; 'Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!'
7. 1523 Zwingli's reformation in Zurich The Zurich city council, persuaded by Huldrych Zwingli at a public disputation, votes to break with the bishop and reform the church by law — the first Reformation carried by a cit
8. 1860 Born: Anton Chekhov Russian playwright and short-story writer of The Seagull and Three Sisters.