Historical Events
"The Wasp"
Jan 1 Ambrose Bierce is appointed editor of "The Wasp" magazine
Watson Meets Holmes
Jan 1 Dr John Watson is first introduced to Sherlock Holmes in story written by Arthur Conan Doyle
Music History
Jan 2 Camille Saint-Saëns' 3rd Violin Concerto in B, premieres in Paris, France, with Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate as soloist and dedicatee
"Academic Festival Overture"
Jan 4 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres in Breslau
Oriental Telephone Company
Jan 25 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Carry van Bruggen [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva), born in Smilde, Netherlands (d. 1932)
- Jan 1 Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
- Jan 4 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor (Seated Youth), born in Meiderich, Germany (d. 1919)
- Jan 5 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, Russian composer, born in Surazh, Russia (d. 1944)
- Jan 8 Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
- Jan 9 Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
- Jan 9 Giovanni Papini, Italian avant-garde writer (Il Diavolo), born in Florence, Italy (d. 1956)
- Jan 9 Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic (Revaluations), born in Ashton upon Mersey, England (d. 1938)
- Jan 13 Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)
- Jan 17 Alfred Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders), born in Birmingham, England (d. 1955)
- Jan 17 Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
- Jan 18 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard), born in Paris, France (d. 1975)
- Jan 25 Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man), born in Wrocław, Poland (d. 1948)
- Jan 31 Irving Langmuir, American chemist and engineer (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1932, invented gas-filled incandescent lamp), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1957)
- Jan 31 Joseph Augustine Cushman, American palaentologist, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts (d. 1949)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 1 Auguste Blanqui, French revolutionary socialist (imprisoned for 33 years, Blanquist movement), dies at 75
- Jan 21 Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)
- Jan 25 Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (Grand Kremlin Palace), dies at 86
- Jan 30 Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58
