- Jan 1 The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed
Barrett and Browning Correspond
Jan 10 Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding
- Jan 23 Uniform US election day for President & VP authorized
"The Raven"
Jan 29 American writer Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" 1st published in The Evening Mirror newspaper (New York City)
Authors
Dictators
Explorers
Outlaws
Queens
Spies