Events in History
Historic Publication
Jan 1 William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal, "The Liberator"; publication continued until the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865
- Jan 1 Slave plantation owner Charles Farquharson begins his diary at Prospect Hill Plantation, Watlings Island (San Salvador). Only plantation diary to survive from the Bahamas (ends Dec 1832). [1]
- Jan 2 Liberator, abolitionist newspaper, begins publishing in Boston
- Jan 3 1st US building & loan association organized, Frankford, Penn
- Jan 15 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
- Jan 15 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina
Historic Event
Jan 22 Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam at Christ's College, Cambridge, coming tenth out of 171 candidates
Birthdays in History
- Jan 2 Justin Winston, historian/librarian (Harvard)
- Jan 7 Heinrich von Stephan, German Director of the Post service who introduced the telephone to Germany, born in Stolp, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia
- Jan 11 James Ronald Chalmers, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Halifax County, Virginia (d. 1898)
- Jan 14 John Bullock Clark Jr., American general (Confederate Army), born in Fayette, Missouri (d. 1903)
- Jan 17 Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)
- Jan 18 Edward Ferrero, American ballroom operator and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Granada, Spain (d. 1899)
- Jan 20 Piet Joubert, South African general and vice-president, born in Prince Albert, British Cape Colony (d. 1900)
- Jan 26 Mary Mapes Dodge, American writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates), born in NYC, New York
- Jan 28 Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1899)