What are the important events that happened on January 13? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 13: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 13 is the 13^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 352 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 31, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,945,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tridecagon’ day.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 16 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,406 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 13: This Day In History

It is still celebrated as New Year’s Eve (at least in the 20th & 21st centuries) by countries still using the thirteen-day-slower Julian calendar (Old New Year).

January 13 Historical Events

• 888 –
  Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
• 1435 –
  Sicut Dudum is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV about the enslaving of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish natives.
• 1785 –
  John Walter publishes the first issue of the Daily Universal Register (later renamed The Times).
• 1797 –
  French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running ashore, resulting in the death of over 900.
• 1847 –
  The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
• 1908 –
  The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
• 1915 –
  An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
• 1953 –
  Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
• 1968 –
  Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison
• 1982 –
  Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC’s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

Who were born on January 13?

• 1777 –
  Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)
• 1805 –
  Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)
• 1808 –
  Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
• 1931 –
  Chris Wiggins, British actor
• 1931 –
  Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1970 –
  Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator (Grey’s Anatomy)
• 1972 –
  Park Jin-Young, Korean singer
• 1984 –
  Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
• 1987 –
  Stefano Del Sante, Italian footballer
• 1995 –
  Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor

Who died on January 13?

• 86 BC –
  Gaius Marius, Roman general and politician (b. 157 BC)
• 1177 –
  Henry II of Austria (b. 1107)
• 1796 –
  John H. D. Anderson, Scottish scientist and inventor (b. 1726)
• 1923 –
  Alexandre Ribot, French statesman (b. 1842)
• 1928 –
  Mara Buneva, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1902}
• 1932 –
  Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
• 1958 –
  Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer (b. 1880)
• 1976 –
  Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922)
• 1982 –
  Marcel Camus, French director (b. 1912)
• 2007 –
  Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)