Portal:Politics/Selected anniversaries/January

• January 1, 1912 – The Republic of China was proclaimed.
• January 4, 2011 – Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known collectively as the Arab Spring.
• January 5, 1912 – Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
• January 12, 1729 – Edmund Burke was born, considered to be the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.
• January 25, 2006 – Hamas wins a victory in the Palestinian legislative election, taking 76 of the 132 seats.