Historical Events
Pennsylvania Line Mutiny
Jan 1 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781.
- Jan 4 Andre Méchain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
British Burn Richmond
Jan 5 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia
- Jan 6 Battle of Jersey: Major Francis Peirson and his men defeat invading French troops
- Jan 17 Battle of Cowpens: American revolutionary forces led by Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat the British under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton in a decisive double envelopment near the town of Cowpens, a turning point in the American reconquest of South Carolina
- Jan 20 1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published
- Jan 23 Niccolò Piccinni's tragédie lyrique opera "Iphigénie en Tauride" (Iphigeneia in Tauris) first performed by Académie royale de musique at the Paris Opéra
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 20 Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
- Jan 22 François-Antoine Habeneck, French composer and musician, born in Mézières, France (d. 1849)
- Jan 26 Achim von Arnim [Ludwig Joachim von Arnim], German Romantic poet and writer (Des Knaben Wunderhorn), born in Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg (d. 1831)
- Jan 30 Adelbert von Chamisso, French writer (Peter Schlemihl), born in Champagne (d. 1838)
