Historical Events
- Jan 1 Yucatan declares independence from Mexico
- Jan 5 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom
Historic Publication
Jan 15 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" is published in the St Petersburg Collection almanac
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Event of Interest
Jan 21 1st edition of Charles Dickens' newspaper "The Daily News"
Charles Dickens
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier (1891..1926)
- Jan 2 Sandor Erkel, Hungarian composer,son of Ferenc Erkel, born in Pest (d. 1900)
- Jan 5 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908), born in Aurich, Germany (d. 1926)
- Jan 8 Albert Cahen, composer
- Jan 8 William Wallace Gilchrist, American composer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1916)
- Jan 29 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
- Jan 30 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), born in Clapham, Surrey, England (d. 1924)