Events in History
Birthdays in History
- Jan 20 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Jan 27 Friedrich von Schelling, German philosopher (Views on Christianity), born in Leonberg, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1854)

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Jan 30 Walter Savage Landor, English poet & writer (Imaginary Conversations), born in Warwick, England (d. 1864)
Deaths in History
- Jan 8 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68
- Jan 10 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"Tsar Peter III", dies
- Jan 11 Yemelyan Pugachov, Don Cossack rebel, executed by tsarist Russia
- Jan 11 Prithvi Narayan Shah, began the unification of modern Nepal (b. 1723)
- Jan 13 Johann Georg Walch, German theologian, dies at 81