Historical Events
Cook Finds Sandwich Islands
Jan 18 Captain James Cook stumbles over the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 3 Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski, Polish bishop (d. 1861)
- Jan 5 Fortunato Santini, Italian priest and composer, born in Rome, Papal States (d. 1861)
- Jan 6 Thomas Lincoln, American farmer, carpenter, and father President Abraham Lincoln, born in Linville Creek, Virginia (d. 1851)
- Jan 13 Anton Fischer, German composer, born in Ried, Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1808)
- Jan 24 Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, son of French King Charles X, born in Versailles, France (d. 1820)
- Jan 31 Franz Anton von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Bohemian and Austrian statesman (Minister-President of Austria 1848), born in Prague (d. 1861)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 4 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57
Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Jan 10 Swedish botanist, explorer and the Father of Taxonomy, dies at 70
