1st » The importation of slavery e.g slaves into the United States is banned.
12th » The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh called Edinburgh, Scotland.
26th » Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
Famous Birthdays on January in 1808
5th » Anton Füster, Austrian priest and activist (d. 1881)
6th » Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American conchologist and palaeontologist (d. 1864)
13th » Salmon P. Chase, American jurist and politician, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)
19th » Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887)