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Chambers' Book of Days
January from the classic book
1st January Part 1
New Year's Day Festivities - Discovery of the Planetoids - Coronation Of Charles II At Scone 1651
1st January Part 2
New Years Gifts - Hobson The Cambridge Carrier
2nd January
The Death of General Wolfe - Ovid - Unlucky Days - Capture of Granada 1492
3rd January
Marcus Tullius Cicero - Josiah Wedgewood - Female Actors - The Horn Book - Migratory Bogs
4th January
The Man In The Moon - Handsel Monday - Evidence About A Chimney - Lifeboats And Their Boatmen - Jacob Grimm
5th January
Twelve Day Eve - Edward The Confessor - St. Simeon Stylites - John Howie
6th January
Twelfth Day - Benjamin Franklin - Election of the King of the Bean - The Retreat From Caubul 1842
7th January
St. Distaff's Day - Cattle In January - Fenelon
8th January
Galileo Galilei - Getting Into A Scrape - Bi Centenary Of Newspapers
9th January
Fontenelle - Caroline Lucretia Herschel - Touching Of The Evil - The 'Davy' And The 'Geordy'
10th January
The Penny Post - Archbishop Laud - Dr. Birbeck
11th January
Plough Monday - Lotteries - Sir Hans Sloane - Duties Of A Ploughman
12th January
Great Eaters - Early Rising In Winter - Running Footman - The Duke Of Alva
13th January
Recovered Rings - Wild Oats - Charles James Fox - St. Veronica
14th January
Great Frosts - Infernal Machines - Feast of the Ass - Mallard Day - Miserrimus
15th January
Bread In The Middle Ages - Dr. Samuel Parr - Talma - The Burlesque Engagement
16th January
The Bottle Hoax - Edward Gibbon - Sir John Moore
17th January
St. Antony And The Pigs - The Shrewsbury Triple Fight - Montfaucon - The Discontinued Services
18th January
Death And Funeral Of A Squaw In London - Prussic Acid - The Peasant Countess
19th January
James Watt - Isaac Disraeli - Congreve And Voltaire - Wulstan Bishop Of Worcester
20th January
Skating - St. Agnes Eve - The First Parliament - Anne Of Austria
21st January
Death Of Louis XVI - St. Agnes - Lord Erskine - The Fate Of Captain Allen Gardiner
22nd January
Francis Bacon - The South Sea Bubble - Ancient Widows
23rd January
Wonders In The Air - Mr. Pitt And His Servant - An Ale Taster In Old Times
24th January
Charles Earl Of Dorset - Youth Of Frederick The Great - Weathercocks
25th January
Robert Burns - Edward II Of England - George Selwyn
26th January
Seventh Sons And Their Seventh Sons - Bishop Low - St. Conon
27th January
Early Notices Of Coffee In England - Dr. Andrew Bell - Robert Burton
28th January
Court Fools And Jesters - Peter The Great - Gas Lighting
29th January
St. Gildas - George III - Swedenborg
30th January
Calves Head Club - Execution Of Charles I - Lord Metcalfe
31st January
The Lighting Of The Beacons - Charles Edward Stuart - Perservering Physiognomies
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