Historical Events
Historic Event
Jan 19 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1" premieres
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 3 John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian
- Jan 3 Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden)
- Jan 5 Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
- Jan 6 Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author, born in Edo, Japan (d. 1894)
- Jan 9 Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken)
- Jan 9 Thomas William Robertson, England, playwright (Caste)
Catherine Booth
Jan 17 Catherine Booth, Co-founder of the Salvation Army known as the 'Army Mother', born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England (d. 1890) [1]
- Jan 18 Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain and author (Blood to Bridge)
- Jan 21 Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (1872-1907)/Norway (-1905)/poet
- Jan 24 William Mason, American pianist, pedagogue and composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1908)
- Jan 30 Alfred Cummings, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1910)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 3 Robert Archibald Smith, Scottish composer, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56
- Jan 12 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55
- Jan 25 William Shield, composer, dies at 80
- Jan 28 William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh
- Jan 28 Thomas Tredgold, British civil engineer (railway design), carpenter, and writer (Elementary Principles of Carpentry, dies at 40
- Jan 29 Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, French politician of the French Revolution, dies at 73
