Historical Events
Dickens Travels to America
Jan 3 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia
- Jan 6 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before reaching India
"Stabat Mater"
Jan 7 Gioachino Rossini's cantata "Stabat Mater" premieres at the Théâtre-Italien's Salle Ventadour in Paris, France
- Jan 8 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
- Jan 12 Franciscan nuns begin missionary work on Netherland Antilles
- Jan 13 Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
- Jan 22 Charles Dickens arrives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, Catherine
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 2 Amy Gaston Bonet-Maury, French reformed theologist, born in Paris (d. 1919)
- Jan 4 Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
- Jan 6 Clarence King, American geologist & mountaineer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1901)
- Jan 7 Johan Lindegren, Swedish composer, musician, and teacher, born in Ullared, Sweden (d. 1908)
William James (1842-1910)
Jan 11 American psychologist (The Principles of Psychology) and philosopher (Pragmatism), born in New York City
- Jan 12 Francois Coppee, French poet, born in Paris (d. 1908)
- Jan 15 Blessed Mary McKillop, Australian nun & candidate for sainthood, born in Fitzroy, Australia (d. 1909)
- Jan 15 Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1925)
- Jan 18 Albert Alonzo Ames, American politician, famously corrupt Mayor of Minneapolis, born in Garden Prairie, Illinois (d. 1911)
- Jan 22 Henri Maréchal, French composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1924)
- Jan 28 Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky, Russian imperial historian, born in Penza Governorate, Russia (d. 1911)
Famous Weddings
- Jan 31 10th US President John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House
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