Historical Events
"Poor Folk"
Jan 15 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" is published in the St Petersburg Collection almanac
"The Daily News"
Jan 21 1st edition of Charles Dickens' newspaper "The Daily News"
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 1 Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist and premier (over many periods from 1891 to 1926), born in Zaječar, Serbia (d. 1926)
- Jan 2 Sandor Erkel, Hungarian composer and son of Ferenc Erkel, born in Pest (d. 1900)
- Jan 5 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908), born in Aurich, Germany (d. 1926)
- Jan 8 Albert Cahen, French opera composer, born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1903)
- Jan 8 William Wallace Gilchrist, American composer, born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1916)
- Jan 29 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
- Jan 30 Francis H. Bradley, British idealist philosopher (Appearance and Reality), born in Clapham, Surrey, England (d. 1924)