* January 12 – Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer and scholar ( d. 1660 )

Petrus Scriverius, the Latinized form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver ( 12 January 1576 – 30 April 1660 ) was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of Holland and Belgium.

Words primarily used in Austria are Jänner ( January ) rather than Januar, heuer ( this year ) rather than dieses Jahr, Stiege ( stairs ) instead of Treppe, Rauchfang ( chimney ) instead of Schornstein, many administrative, legal and political terms – and a whole series of foods and vegetables such as: Erdäpfel ( potatoes ) German Kartoffeln ( but Dutch Aardappel ), Schlagobers ( whipped cream ) German Schlagsahne, Faschiertes ( ground beef ) German Hackfleisch, Fisolen ( green beans ) German Gartenbohne ( but Czech fazole and Italian fagioli ), Karfiol ( cauliflower ) German Blumenkohl ( but Italian cavolfiore ), Kohlsprossen ( Brussels sprouts ) German Rosenkohl, Marillen ( apricots ) German Aprikosen but Slovak marhuľa, Paradeiser ( tomatoes ) German Tomaten, Palatschinken ( pancakes ) German Pfannkuchen ( but Czech palačinky ), Topfen ( a semi-sweet cottage cheese ) German Quark and Kren ( horseradish ) German Meerrettich ( but Czech křen ).

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder ( 18 January 1573 – 1621 ) was a still life painter of the Dutch Golden Age.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

Also, the university maintains partnerships with several Dutch universities and announced a " preferred partnership " with the Universiteit Utrecht on 3 January 2011.

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

In January 2009, a court in Amsterdam ordered the prosecution of Geert Wilders, a Dutch Member of Parliament, for breaching articles 137c and 137d.

In January the Noordsche Compagnie ( Northern Company ), modelled on the Dutch East India Company, had been established to support Dutch whaling in the Arctic.

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656 ) was a Dutch landscape painter.

Since January 2006, the NATO International Security Assistance Force undertook combat duties from Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan, the NATO force chiefly made up of British, Canadian and Dutch forces ( and some smaller contributions from Denmark, Romania and Estonia and air support from Norway as well as air and artillery support from the U. S .) ( see the article Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006 ).

* The signing of the Peace of Münster between the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of Spain on 30 January 1648, officially ratified in Münster on 15 May 1648.

The first documented European sighting of the region was made by the Dutch Captain Willem de Vlamingh and his crew on 10 January 1697.

In January 2010, a previously unknown letter from Descartes, dated 27 May 1641, was found by the Dutch philosopher Erik-Jan Bos when browsing through Google.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912 ) was a Dutch born, British painter.

* Netherlands: In April 2008, the Dutch Government announced that it would ease the ban it had imposed in January 2007 that made it illegal to use a Segway on public roads in the Netherlands.

On January 21, 1643, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman was the first European to visit the main island ( Tongatapu ) and

The language groups are: French community ( though not Walloon but generally named Wallonia-Brussels, see especially the international plan and from 1 January 2009 ) Flemish community ( which uses Dutch ), and German-speaking community.

* January 23 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer

* January 15 – Rombout Verhulst, Dutch sculptor ( d. 1698 )

* January 9 – Peter Minuit sails from Texel Island for America's New Netherland colony, with 2 ships of Dutch emigrants.

* January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of her novel Journey Through the Night ( Reis door de nacht ) set during World War II.

* January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon.

* January 28 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician

Edward Gibbon ( 27 April 173716 January 1794 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937 ) was a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee.

His birth date has traditionally been recorded as January 19, 1807, but according to the historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor, " Lee's writings indicate he may have been born the previous year.

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

* January 13 – Henri Langlois, French film historian ( b. 1914 )

* January 30 – Charles Rollin, French historian ( d. 1741 )

* January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author

* January 11 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, historian, and author ( b. 1852 )

* January 21 – Henry Hallam, English historian ( b. 1777 )

* January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer

* January 2 – John Hope Franklin, American historian ( d. 2009 )

* January 25 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian ( d. 1984 )

* January 31 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist ( b. 1891 )

* January 8 – Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian ( b. 1814 )

* January 2 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician ( d. 1973 )

* January 25 – Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna, Chilean historian ( b. 1831 )

* January 6 – Yevgeny Tarle, Soviet historian ( b. 1874 )

* January 11 – Ernst Nolte, German historian

* January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist ( d. 1994 )

* January 6 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian ( d. 1967 )

* January 16 – Edward Gibbon, English historian ( b. 1737 )

* January 8 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author ( d. 1931 )

* January – Józef Białynia Chołodecki, Polish historian ( b. 1852 )

* January 4 – Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar ( d. 1904 )