Historical Events
Historic Event
Jan 1 Dr John Watson is first introduced to Sherlock Holmes in story written by Arthur Conan Doyle
Appointment of Interest
Jan 1 Ambrose Bierce is appointed editor of "The Wasp" magazine
- Jan 2 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Concerto in B, premieres
Music History
Jan 4 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres in Breslau
Historic Event
Jan 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Carry van Bridges [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)
- Jan 1 Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
- Jan 4 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)
- Jan 5 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, Russian composer, born in Surazh, Russia (d. 1944)
- Jan 8 Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
- Jan 9 Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (Il Diavolo)
- Jan 9 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)
- Jan 9 Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
- Jan 13 Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
- Jan 17 Alfred Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1955)
- Jan 17 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
