Historical Events
Die Eerste Walpurgisnacht
Jan 10 Felix Mendelssohn's cantata "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin, Germany
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
- Jan 2 Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (d. 1893)
- Jan 7 Henry Enfield Roscoe, English chemist (vanadium and photochemistry), born in London (d. 1915)
- Jan 23 John Randolph Chambliss Jr, American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Greensville County, Virginia (d. 1864)
- Jan 28 Charles George Gordon, British general (put down Taiping rebellion in China) and administrator (Governor-General of Sudan), born in London, England (d. 1885)
Famous Deaths
- Jan 7 Ramón Cuéllar y Altarriba, Spanish composer, dies at 55
- Jan 10 Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician who worked on elliptic integrals, dies at 80
- Jan 10 António da Silva Leite, Portuguese composer, dies at 73
- Jan 12 Marie-Antoine Carême, French chef (b. 1784)
- Jan 14 Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint, dies at 73
- Jan 15 Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (Waxhaws Massacre), dies at 78
- Jan 17 James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
- Jan 17 William Rush, American sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies at 76
- Jan 19 (Louis Joseph) Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist, violinist, and composer of over twenty operas, dies from tuberculosis at 41
- Jan 23 Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
