Historical Events
Austin Granted Land
Jan 3 Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
- Jan 27 President Monroe appoints first US ambassadors to South America
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet (A virágnak megtiltani nem lehet - You Cannot Forbid the Flower), and revolutionary, born in Kiskőrös, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (d. 1849)
- Jan 3 Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, born in Zoerle-Parwijs, Belgium (d. 1881)
- Jan 4 Otto van Rees, Dutch Governor-general of Dutch East Indies (1884-88), born in Culemborg, Netherlands (d. 1892)
- Jan 4 Peter Joseph Osterhaus, German-American diplomat and Major General (Union Army), born in Koblenz, Germany (d. 1917)
- Jan 5 William Rockstro [Rackstraw], English musicologist, arranger, and composer, born in North Cheam, Surrey, England (d. 1895)
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
Jan 8 British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection, born in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales
Famous Deaths
Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
Jan 26 English physician, father of (western) immunology, pioneered smallpox vaccinations, dies of a stroke at 73
- Jan 27 Charles Hutton, English mathematician and surveyor, dies at 85
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