30 indexed achievements across recorded history.
A treaty concluded at Dover between King John and Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, arranged Joan's marriage, formalising her role in Anglo-Welsh diplomacy.
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Catherine de' Medici died at Château de Blois, ending an era of Medici influence in France.
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Presented to royals at Whitehall on January 5, 1617.
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Born on 5 January 1723 in the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, Nicole-Reine Étable de la Brière would become a pioneering French astronomical calculator.
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Born in Paris on 5 January 1723, Nicole-Reine Lepaute would become a leading Enlightenment astronomer and calculator of comet, eclipse, and ephemeris data.
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Elizabeth died in St. Petersburg on 25 December 1761 (Old Style), 5 January 1762 (New Style), after suffering a fatal stroke.
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Emma Abbott died of pneumonia in Salt Lake City, Utah, on January 5, 1891, at approximately 40 years old, while still actively touring with her opera company.
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Elizabeth Cotten was born in Carrboro near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on January 5, 1893.
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Jeannette Ridlon Piccard was born in Chicago, Illinois, later becoming a pioneering balloonist and Episcopal priest.
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Filed U.S. Patent Application for The Landlord's Game.
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Kathleen Kenyon was born on January 5, 1906, in London, England.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross was inaugurated and took the oath of office as governor of Wyoming.
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Stone is nominated as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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De Valois founded the Vic-Wells Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, the company that evolved into The Royal Ballet.
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Zaharias became the first woman to compete in a PGA Tour tournament, at the Los Angeles Open.
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A Los Angeles probate court declared Earhart legally dead after her husband George Putnam petitioned to waive the standard seven-year waiting period.
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Amy Johnson died on January 5, 1941, while serving as an ATA pilot.
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Birth of Mary Genevieve Gaudron in Moree, New South Wales, later Australia’s first female Justice of the High Court.
View detailsZaharias competed in PGA Tour events in 1945, the only woman to make the cut multiple times.
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Noor Inayat Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross, announced in the London Gazette on 5 January 1946.
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Kathrine Virginia Switzer was born in Amberg, Germany, later becoming an American marathon runner and women's sports advocate.
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'The Betty White Show,' a daytime variety talk show hosted and produced by Betty White, premiered nationally, marking a landmark first for women in television.
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Grasso becomes the first woman elected floor leader of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
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Helenka Pantaleoni passed away in New York at the age of 86.
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Carol Moseley Braun was sworn into the U.S. Senate, marking historic firsts.
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Frederica Sagor Maas passed away on January 5, 2012, at 111 years old.
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By 2022, Feinstein was the longest-serving woman senator in U.S. history.
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News outlets including PBS NewsHour reported that GPS pioneer and mathematician Gladys West had died at age 95.
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