- Jan 7 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
- Jan 8 US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history
- Jan 25 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani" premieres in Paris
Assassination Attempt
Jan 30 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in 1st attempted assassination of a US President
