- Jan 4 Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule
Leopold II and Stanley's Secret Meeting
Jan 8 Secret meeting of Belgian King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley
- Jan 9 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
- Jan 10 US Senate proposes female suffrage
- Jan 14 US Supreme court rules race separation on trains unconstitutional [1]
- Jan 16 Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule
- Jan 24 Revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg
- Jan 28 George Coy, Herrick Frost, and Walter Lewis open first commercial telephone exchange, in New Haven, Connecticut [1]
- Jan 28 Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper
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