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The world in 1556 January 23: Shaanxi earthquake, devastation kills 830,000 people in China.

Year 1556 (MDLVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1556” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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