Historical Events
- Jan 1 The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed
Barrett and Browning Correspond
Jan 10 Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding
- Jan 23 Uniform US election day for President & VP authorized
"The Raven"
Jan 29 American writer Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" 1st published in The Evening Mirror newspaper (New York City)
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 3 Annibal Napoleão dos Santos, Portuguese pianist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1880)
- Jan 7 Ludwig III, the last king of Bavaria (1913-18), born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1921)
- Jan 7 Paul Deussen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), born in Oberdreis, Germany (d. 1919)
- Jan 13 Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)
- Jan 14 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, British statesman, born in London (d. 1927)
- Jan 15 Ella Flagg Young, American educator and1st woman pres. (National Educational Association), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1918)
- Jan 15 Heinrich Vogl, German operatic heldentenor, born in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1900)
- Jan 22 Paul Vidal de la Blanche, French geographer, born in Pézenas, France (d. 1918)
Famous Weddings
David Livingstone
Jan 2 Explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone (31) weds Mary Moffat
Famous Deaths
- Jan 23 Francesco Ruggi, Italian composer, dies at 77
