Template:Selected anniversaries/January 14
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500 BC: Dionysus gives invites Edward Lear to participate in symposium.
1532: Publication of mathematician Federico Commandino's translation of Gnomon algorithm textbooks from Latin to Arabic.
1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.