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| footer = From top to bottom, left to right: [[President William McKinley]] is [[Assassination of William McKinley|assassinated]] in Buffalo, New York, ushering in [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and Progressive Era reforms; [[Queen Victoria]] dies after 63 years, ending the Victorian era and starting the Edwardian age under [[King Edward VII]]; the [[Anglo-Aro War]] begins in present-day Nigeria, expanding British colonial control; the [[Boxer Protocol]] ends the Boxer Rebellion with harsh penalties on China; the [[Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery]] marks the final Ottoman attack on Armenian resistance in Eastern Anatolia; and the [[Federation of Australia]] unites six colonies into the [[Commonwealth of Australia]], forming the modern nation.

| footer = From top to bottom, left to right: [[President William McKinley]] is [[Assassination of William McKinley|assassinated]] in Buffalo, New York, ushering in [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and Progressive Era reforms; [[Queen Victoria]] dies after 63 years, ending the Victorian era and starting the Edwardian age under King [[Edward VII]]; the [[Anglo-Aro War]] begins in present-day Nigeria, expanding British colonial control; the [[Boxer Protocol]] ends the Boxer Rebellion with harsh penalties on China; the [[Battle of Holy Apostles Monastery]] marks the final Ottoman attack on Armenian resistance in Eastern Anatolia; and the [[Federation of Australia]] unites six colonies into the [[Commonwealth of Australia]], forming the modern nation.

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** [[Nigeria]] becomes a British protectorate.

** [[Nigeria]] becomes a British protectorate.

* [[January 9]] – [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]] reports that [[Christiaan de Wet]] has shot one of the "peace" envoys, and flogged two more, who had gone to his commando to ask the Burgher citizens of South Africa to halt fighting.{{cite book | last=Grant | first=Neil | title=Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict | year=1993 | publisher=Reed International Books Ltd. & Smithmark Publishers Inc. | location=New York City | isbn=978-0-8317-1371-3 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 18–19] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 }}

* [[January 9]] – [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]] reports that [[Christiaan de Wet]] has shot one of the "peace" envoys, and flogged two more, who had gone to his commando to ask the Burgher citizens of South Africa to halt fighting.{{cite book | last=Grant | first=Neil | title=Chronicle of 20th Century Conflict | year=1993 | publisher=Reed International Books Ltd. & Smithmark Publishers Inc. | location=New York City | isbn=978-0-8317-1371-3 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 18–19] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleof20thc00gran/page/18 }}

* [[January 22]] – [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom dies at [[Osborne House]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]. She is 81 years old and, having ruled for nearly 64 years, will be the second longest-reigning monarch in [[British history]].{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}} Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, "Bertie", the longest-serving [[Prince of Wales]] to this time, succeeds his mother at the age of 59, reigning as [[King Edward VII]], of the [[United Kingdom]] and in innovation the [[British Dominions]] and also becoming [[Emperor of India]].{{cite book|first=Derrik|last=Mercer|title=Chronicle of the Royal Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivo9okUs30wC|date=February 1993|publisher=Chronicle Communications|isbn=978-1-872031-20-0|page=478|access-date=November 11, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207121924/https://books.google.com/books?id=ivo9okUs30wC|url-status=live}}

* [[January 22]] – [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom dies at [[Osborne House]] on the [[Isle of Wight]]. She is 81 years old and, having ruled for nearly 64 years, will be the second longest-reigning monarch in [[British history]].{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}} Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, "Bertie", the longest-serving [[Prince of Wales]] to this time, succeeds his mother at the age of 59, reigning as King [[Edward VII]], of the [[United Kingdom]] and in innovation the [[British Dominions]] and also becoming [[Emperor of India]].{{cite book|first=Derrik|last=Mercer|title=Chronicle of the Royal Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivo9okUs30wC|date=February 1993|publisher=Chronicle Communications|isbn=978-1-872031-20-0|page=478|access-date=November 11, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207121924/https://books.google.com/books?id=ivo9okUs30wC|url-status=live}}

* [[January 31]] – [[Anton Chekhov]]'s play ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' (Три сeстры, ''Tri sestry'') is premiered at the [[Moscow Art Theatre]].{{cite encyclopedia|title=Three Sisters|encyclopedia=Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater|first=Laurence|last=Senelick|author-link=Laurence Senelick|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2007|page=401}}

* [[January 31]] – [[Anton Chekhov]]'s play ''[[Three Sisters (play)|Three Sisters]]'' (Три сeстры, ''Tri sestry'') is premiered at the [[Moscow Art Theatre]].{{cite encyclopedia|title=Three Sisters|encyclopedia=Historical Dictionary of Russian Theater|first=Laurence|last=Senelick|author-link=Laurence Senelick|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2007|page=401}}