On This Day: January 11th

The Michigan Territory is created.

William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Arauco War: A Spanish army is defeated by local Mapuche-Huilliches as it tries to cross Bueno River in Southern Chile.

First recorded lottery in England.

Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.

Theodora is crowned empress of the Byzantine Empire.

Sack of Mecca by the Qarmatians.

Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, and the Quraysh association of clans surrenders.

Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.