Historical Events
Asunción Falls to Brazil
Jan 1 War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay's capital Asunción falls to Brazilian forces led by General João de Souza da Fonseca Costa
- Jan 18 Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco
1st Woman Testifies Before Congress
Jan 20 Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 3 Paul Charles Rene Landormy, French musicologist, music critic, and composer, born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France (d. 1943)
- Jan 4 Tommy Corcoran, American baseball shortstop (MLB shortstop game assist record 14), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1960)
- Jan 13 Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta, Italian WWI general and fascist, born in Genoa (d. 1931)
- Jan 15 Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1907)
Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916)
Jan 21 Russian monk and confidant of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, born in Pokrovskoye, Sibera, Russian Empire
- Jan 23 Felice Boghen, Italian composer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1945)
- Jan 23 Herbert David Croly, American author (Promise of American Life), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1930)
- Jan 27 Will Marion Cook, American composer, violinist and choral director (In Dahomey), born in Washington D.C. (d. 1944)
- Jan 29 Andrey Scherbachov, Russian composer and pianist, born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1922)
- Jan 31 Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian count and politician (Prime Minister of Belgian 1920-21), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1951)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 1 Martin W. Bates, American politician, dies at 82
- Jan 17 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer, dies at 55
- Jan 26 Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross, commits suicide at 22
- Jan 28 Prudent-Louis Aubery du Boulley, French composer, dies at 72
- Jan 30 William Carleton, Irish writer and novelist (Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry), dies at 74
