Historical Events
- Jan 1 Moerdijk railway bridge over Hollands Diep, South Holland opens - then longest bridge in Europe
- Jan 3 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office
- Jan 12 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- Jan 20 California Stock Exchange Board organized
- Jan 29 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 4 Edmund Rumpler, Austrian auto/airplane builder
- Jan 6 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1915)
- Jan 11 Paul Graener, composer
- Jan 11 George Washington Pierce, American physicist (d. 1956)
- Jan 11 Wilfred Baddeley, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1891-2, 95), born in Bromley, England (d. 1929)
- Jan 15 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
- Jan 16 Edward Gordon Craig, British modernist actor, director and theorist (On the art of theatre), born in Stevenage Hertfordshire, England (d. 1966)
- Jan 16 Henri-Paul Busser, composer
- Jan 18 Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], French writer (Petit ami)
- Jan 21 Jonkhr Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, Dutch foreign minister
- Jan 23 Paul Langevin, French physicist, born in Paris, France (d. 1946)
- Jan 23 Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect, born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (d. 1957)
- Jan 24 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (d. 1943)
- Jan 24 Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958)
- Jan 27 Learned Hand, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals), born in Albany, New York
- Jan 31 Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
Famous Weddings
Wedding of Interest
Jan 19 Physicist Wilhelm Röntgen (26) weds Anna Bertha Ludwig in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Wilhelm Röntgen