In Events:
| January 28th 1077 | | German king Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
| | January 28th 1077 | | Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV
| | January 28th 1099 | | 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria
| | January 28th 1262 | | Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
| | January 28th 1393 | | Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents)
| | January 28th 1495 | | Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France
| | January 28th 1547 | | 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England
| | January 28th 1561 | | By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended
| | January 28th 1581 | | James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland
| | January 28th 1613 | | Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
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In Births:
| January 28th 1457 | | Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509)
| | January 28th 1578 | | Cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)
| | January 28th 1582 | | John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)
| | January 28th 1600 | | Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69)
| | January 28th 1608 | | Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer
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In Deaths:
| January 28th 0814 | | Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71
| | January 28th 1119 | | Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies
| | January 28th 1256 | | Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22
| | January 28th 1393 | | Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball
| | January 28th 1528 | | Philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies
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