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- 1492
- In the Granada War, the Nasrid city of Granada falls to the Crown of Castile.
- 1540
- St Peter’s Abbey is dissolved in Gloucester, England, to be refounded as a cathedral the following year by Henry VIII.
- 1900
- The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is completed in Illinois, diverting the Chicago River from Lake Michigan into the Mississippi River watershed.
- 1927
- In the Lombardy region of Italy, Gallarate is transferred from the province of Milan to the province of Varese.
- 1976
- The kibbutz of Kishorit is founded as Kishur in northern Israel.
- 1995
- Makiti becomes a city in Metro Manila.
- 2012
- Golden’s Deli closes after 30 years in business in Staten Island, New York.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on January 2, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on January 2 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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