Events in History
- Jan 1 Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City
- Jan 2 South Carolina seizes inactive Ft Johnson in Charleston Harbor
- Jan 2 Colonel Charles Stone is put in charge of organizing DC militia
- Jan 3 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
- Jan 3 US Fort Pulaski and Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia
- Jan 4 US Ft Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
- Jan 5 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
- Jan 5 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
- Jan 6 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
- Jan 6 NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with North and South
- Jan 7 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine (US Civil War)
Battle of Fort Sumter
Jan 9 A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
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- Jan 9 Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
- Jan 10 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War)
- Jan 10 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
- Jan 10 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
- Jan 11 Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform
- Jan 11 Alabama secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
- Jan 12 Florida state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens (US Civil War)
- Jan 14 Fort Pikens, Florida, falls into state hands (US Civil War)
Historic Invention
Jan 15 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
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Event of Interest
Jan 21 Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War)
Jefferson Davis
- Jan 24 Federal troops from Ft Monroe are sent to Ft Pikens
- Jan 25 Arsenal Augustaseized by Confederacy in Georgia (US Civil War)
- Jan 26 Louisiana secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
- Jan 29 US state of Kansas admitted to the Union as the 34th state
- Jan 31 Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod" premieres in Weimar
- Jan 31 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans (U.S Civil War)
Birthdays in History
- Jan 2 Helen Herron Taft, 1st lady (1909-12)
- Jan 6 George Exton Lloyd, Anglican bishop and theologian, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1940)
- Jan 12 James Mark Baldwin, American philosopher & psychologist, born in Columbia, South Carolina (d. 1934)
- Jan 13 Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)
- Jan 14 Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf), born in Cunewalde, Germany (d. 1903)
- Jan 18 Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist