Events in History
California Gold Rush
Jan 24 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
Birthdays in History
- Jan 1 John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
- Jan 4 Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
- Jan 5 Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet & nationalist revolutionary, born in Kalofer, Bulgaria (d. 1876)
- Jan 5 Same Steele, Canadian soldier, born in Purbrook, Canada West (d. 1919)
- Jan 9 Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
- Jan 18 Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer (d. 1925)
- Jan 19 John F. Stairs, Canadian businessman (d. 1904)
- Jan 22 Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist (Middle Ages)
- Jan 24 Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (d. 1916)
- Jan 27 Tōgō Heihachirō, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral and one of Japan's greatest naval heroes, born in Kajiya-Chō, Kagoshima-Jōka, Satsuma, Japan (d. 1934)
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