Events in History
Historic Publication
Jan 28 Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom
Birthdays in History
- Jan 4 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
Isaac Pitman
Jan 4 Isaac Pitman, English teacher and inventor of Pitman shorthand (Stenographic Soundhand), born in Trowbridge, England (d. 1897)
- Jan 4 Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
- Jan 5 Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Sumter County, South Carolina (d. 1903)
- Jan 7 Ann Rutledge, said to be Abraham Lincoln's true love, born in Henderson, Kentucky (d. 1835)
- Jan 13 Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy (1876-78, 1778-79, 1881-87), born in Bressana Bottarone, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1887)
- Jan 15 James Marion Sims, American physician & surgical pioneer (vesicovaginal operation), born in Lancaster County, South Carolina (d. 1883)
- Jan 18 Joseph Glidden, American inventor of 1st commercial usable barbed wire, born in Charlestown, New Hampshire (d. 1906)
- Jan 19 Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)
- Jan 20 Jacon Gartner Lauman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Taneytown, Maryland (d. 1867)
- Jan 26 Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876
- Jan 31 Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist
Deaths in History
- Jan 3 Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
- Jan 6 Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general, dies at 48
- Jan 20 Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (Oberon), dies at 79
- Jan 23 George Clymer, American merchant (signed US Declaration of Independence), dies at 73
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