Historical Events
Event of Interest
Jan 5 Davy Crockett arrives in Nacogdoches, Texas, to aid the revolution
Davy Crockett
- Jan 12 Battle of Wetumka, Fla
Event of Interest
Jan 12 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin reaches Sydney, Australia
Charles Darwin
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 2 Queen Emma of Hawaii, Consort of King Kamehameha IV (d. 1885)
- Jan 2 Mendele Moykher Sforim, Jewish writer (d. 1917)
- Jan 3 Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
- Jan 8 Fannie M Jackson, pioneer & educator, 1st US African American woman college grad
- Jan 8 Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps
- Jan 10 Charles Ingalls, father of American author Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
- Jan 14 [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, American Major General (Union Army), born in Wantage Township, New Jersey (d. 1881)
- Jan 14 Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
- Jan 16 King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)
- Jan 17 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer
- Jan 27 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)
- Jan 29 Benjamin Franklin Potts, American lawyer, politician, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Fox Township, Ohio (d. 1887)
- Jan 29 James Meech Warner, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Middlebury, Vermont (d. 1897)
- Jan 31 Henryk Szulc, composer
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Jan 6 Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Famous Deaths
Betsy Ross
Jan 30 Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], American seamstress widely credited with making the first American flag, dies at 84
Betsy Ross