JANUARY CALENDAR 



Birthdays 



1. Paul Revere, 1735 



2. James Wolfe, 1727 



3. Cicero, 106 B. c. 



4. Jacob L. C. Grimm, 1785 



6. Joan of Arc, 1412 



7. Israel Putnam, 1718 



8. James Longstreet, 1821 

 Wilkie Collins, 1824 



10. Ethan Allen, 1737 



11. Alexander Hamilton, 1757 

 Sir John A. Macdonald, 1815 



12. Edmund Burke, 1729 

 J. H. Pestalozzi, 1746 



13. Salmon P. Chase, 1808 



14. Benedict Arnold, 1741 



15. Moliere, 1622 



16. Robert W. Service, 1876 



17. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 



18. Daniel Webster. 1782 



19. James Watt, 1736 

 Robert E. Lee, 1807 

 Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 



21. John C. Fremont, 1813 

 "Stonewall" Jackson, 1824 



22. Francis Bacon, 1561 



24. Charles James Fox, 1749 



25. Robert Burns, 1759 



27. Mozart, 1756 



Emperor William II, 1859 



28. Charles George Gordon, 1833 

 Alexander Mackenzie, 1822 



29. Thomas Paine, 1737 

 William McKinley. 1843 



30. Walter Savage Landor, 1775 

 Charles, Baron Metcalfe, 1785 



31. Ben Jonson, 1574 

 Gouverneur Morris, 1752 

 Franz Schubert, 1797 



Events 



1. People everywhere confidently expected 20. 



the second coming of Christ, 1000 



Ireland became a part of the United 



Kingdom, 1801 21. 



Greece declared itself independent of 

 Turkey, 1822 



Lincoln issued Emancipation Procla- 

 mation, 1863 22. 



Commonwealth of Australia pro- 

 claimed, 1901 23. 



2. Battle of Murfreesboro, 1863 



Port Arthur surrendered to the Japan- 

 ese, 1905 



3. Second partition of Poland, 1795 



4. Utah admitted to the Union, 1896 24. 



6. Battle of Ladysmith, in South African 



War, 1900 



7. First Presidential election held in 25. 



United States, 1789 



8. La Salle reached Niagara Falls, 1679 26. 



9. Napoleon divorced Josephine, 1810 



10. Stamp Act passed by Parliament, 1765 27. 

 England adopted penny postage, 1840 



12. Arbitration treaty signed by Canada 



and United States, 1909 



13. Congress decided that the American 



Colonies should have a new flag, 1777 



14. Norway was united with Sweden, 1814 

 Kingston, Jamaica, nearly destroyed 28. 



by an earthquake, 1907 29. 



15. Queen Elizabeth crowned, 1559 30. 

 British Museum opened, 1759 



16. Kingdom abolished in Hawaii, 1893 



17. Battle of the Cowpens, 1781 



18. William I proclaimed German emperor, 



1871 



19. Order of the Garter established, 1350 



Body of Columbus transferred to Ha- 31. 



vana, 1796 

 Discovery of gold in California, 1848 



First session of English Parliament, 



1265 



Emperor of China abdicated, 1912 

 Execution of Louis XVI of France, 



1793 

 Corps of Canadian mounted riflemen 



sent to Boer War, 1900 

 Edward VII became king of England, 



1901 

 Kansas-Nebraska Bill introduced in 



Congress by Stephen A. Douglas, 



1854 



France annexed Madagascar, 1896 

 Battle of Spion Cop, 1900 

 Prussia annexed Schleswig-Holstein, 



1867 



Naval battle in North Sea, 1915 

 Robert Young Hayne began his great 



debate with Webster, 1830 

 Webster's reply to Hayne, 1830 

 Michigan admitted to the Union, 1837 

 Charles I sentenced to death, 1649 

 The Canadian Great Western Railway 



opened, 1854 



Charles George Gordon murdered, 1885 

 A treaty settling the fishing question 



signed by Newfoundland and the 



United States, 1909 



Paris surrendered to the Germans, 1871 

 Kansas admitted to the Union, 1861 

 Charles I beheaded, 1649 

 Earl of Elgin became Governor-Gen- 

 eral of Canada, 1847 

 Alaskan boundary dispute between 



Great Britain and United States set- 

 tled by treaty, 1897 

 Russians occupied Tabriz, 1915 

 The Great Eastern, largest steamer 



then in existence, launched, 1858 



Barberry 



Burns' To a Mouse 



To a Mountain Daisy 

 Fire 



For Study 



Franklin's boyhood 



Freezing 



Grimms' Fairy Tales 



Janus 



Paul Revere's Ride 



Snow 



Steam 



Steam Engine 



