Historical Events
First Female Paris Academy Prize
Jan 8 Sophie Germain is the first woman to win a prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity
- Jan 12 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever
Byron Completes Poems
Jan 22 Lord Byron completes poems "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth"
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 7 Stephen Miller, American politician (Governor of Minnesota) Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Perry County, Pennsylvania (d. 1881)
- Jan 9 John Palmer Usher, American Secretary of the Interior under Lincoln during the US Civil War (1863-65), born in Brookfield, New York (d. 1889)
- Jan 11 Fitz Henry Warren, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Brimfield, Massachusetts (d. 1878)
- Jan 15 Marie LaFarge, French murderer, born in Paris, France (d. 1852)
- Jan 19 Henry Gray, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)
- Jan 23 Compars Herrmann, German stage magician, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1887)
- Jan 26 Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1863)
- Jan 30 Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, American politician, Major General (Union Army), born in Waltham, Massachusetts (d. 1894)
Famous Deaths
Samuel Hood (1724-1816)
Jan 27 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral in the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolutionary Wars, dies at 92
- Jan 30 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver and art collector, dies at 74
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