Events in History
- Jan 11 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21)
- Jan 14 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in US (NY)
- Jan 21 Pineapple introduced to Hawaii (or 01/111)
- Jan 21 Spaniard Don Francisco de Paula y Marin plants coffee in Hawaii - 1st record of coffee growing in Hawaii
- Jan 22 Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
Historic Publication
Jan 28 Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is published by Thomas Egerton in the United Kingdom
Jane Austen
Birthdays in History
- Jan 4 Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
- Jan 4 Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)
- 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 15 James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
- 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