Occult:This month in history/January

Woodcut of Vlad the Impaler

• 3 January - British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor after several years of searching. (1924)
• 3/4 January - Earth-Sun Perihelion, when the earth is closest to the sun.
• 5 January - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic is born. (1904)
• 6 January - Gertrude the Great, a German mystic is born. (1256)
• 6 January - Author and occultist Dion Fortune dies . (1946)
• 8 January - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei dies. (1642)
• 8 January - Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers is born. (1854)
• 9 January - Trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen, France. (1431)
• 10 January - Probable date of Vlad the Impaler's death. (1477)
• 16 January - Ivan the Terrible is crowned Tsar of Russia. (1547)
• 16 January - Magician Aleister Crowley is initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (1900)
• 17 January - Author and astrologer Robert Fludd is born. (1574)
• 21 January - Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin is born. (1869)
• 22 January - Argentine folk saint Eva Perón meets her future husband, Colonel Juan Perón at a charity event. (1944)
• 24 January - L. Ron Hubbard founder of the Church of Scientology dies. (1987)
• 25 January - Early Tarot author Antoine Court de Gébelin is born in France. (1725)
• 27 January - The occult horror film The Witch premiers at the Sundance Film Festival. (2015)
• 28 January - Execution of Agnes Sampson, accused of witchcraft in Edinburgh. (1591)
• 28 January - Collin de Plancy, an occultist and author is born. (1793)
• 28 January - Author W.B. Yeats dies in Paris. (1939)
• 31 January - Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University. (1862)