* January 20 – Humphrey Hody, English theologian ( b. 1659 )

* January 20 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect / designer ( b. 1659 )

* January 31 – Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer ( b. 1659 )

The origin of Baltimore County is not known ; the earliest known record of the county politically is January 12, 1659, when a writ was issued to its sheriff.

* Brockhill Newburgh ( c. 1659 – 11 January 1741 ), Ireland MP, chairman of Linen Board

On 21 January 1659 Elizabeth Lilburne petitioned Richard Cromwell for the discharge of the fine imposed on her husband by the act of 30 Jan. 1652, and her request was granted.

Richard Cromwell summoned a new Parliament on 27 January 1659, and Hale was returned as MP for Oxford University.

Charles Annibal Fabrot ( September 15, 1580 – January 16, 1659 ) was a French jurisconsult.

He died in Paris on 16 January 1659.

Humphrey Hody ( 1659 – 20 January 1707 ) was an English scholar and theologian.

Sir Arthur Haselrig, 2nd Baronet ( 1601 – 7 January 1661 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1659.

* January 20-Humphrey Hody, theologian ( born 1659 )

The Rump Parliament reassembled on 26 December 1659, and on 2 January 1660, Cooper was elected to the Council of State.

On 7 January 1659, a special committee reported back on the disputed 1640 Downton election and Cooper was finally allowed to take his seat as member for Downton.

By January 1659, the allied forces stood at Fredriksodde, Kolding and Als.

Digby succeeded to the peerage as 2nd Earl of Bristol on the death of his father in January 1659 and was made K. G.

* January 31-Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer ( born 1659 )

Samuel Pepys ( whose wife was French ) recorded a party in London on Epiphany night, 6 January 1659 / 1660: "... to my cousin Stradwick, where, after a good supper, there being there my father, mothers, brothers, and sister, my cousin Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his wife, and her brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was King.

Jacob Roggeveen ( 1 February 1659, Middelburg-31 January 1729, Middelburg ) was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but he instead came across Easter Island.

His public career closes with addresses delivered in his capacity as chief commissioner of the great seal at the beginning of the sessions of 20 January 1658, and 2 January 1659, in which the religious basis of Cromwell's government is especially insisted upon, the feature to which Fiennes throughout his career had attached most value.

He body was balmed on orders of Charles X of Sweden and displayed as a war trophy in the town hall of Elsinore by the Swedes, who January 1659 delivered his body to the Danish court in Copenhagen ; after the Danes had paid their homage, it was transported to the Netherlands and buried with great pomp in Rotterdam on 7 October, in the church of St Lawrence, where the marble grave memorial, restored after being damaged by the German bombardment of 14 May 1940, can still be seen.

Francis Rous or Rouse ( 1579 – January 1659 ) was an English politician and a prominent Puritan.

Damaris Cudworth Masham ( 18 January 1659 – 20 April 1708 ) was an English philosopher.

In January 1941, Weil and his family sailed from Marseille to New York.

The expedition, consisting of the Grafton, 70 guns, Elizabeth, 74 guns, Europe, 64 guns, and the Iphigenia frigate, sailed on 16 January 1783, under the command of Commodore Robert Kingsmill.

Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, the Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958.

In January 1776, Allen and his men were put on board HMS Soledad, which sailed for Cork, Ireland.

On January 3, 1841, he sailed from Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet, which was bound for the Pacific Ocean.

She sailed from Calais in January 1522.

When Bligh received the news of Macquarie's arrival, he sailed from Hobart to Sydney, arriving on 17 January 1810 to collect evidence for the forthcoming court martial of Major George Johnston.

On 1 January 1908, Nimrod sailed for the Antarctic from Lyttelton Harbour, New Zealand.

Stairs sailed from London on 20 January 1887 and met Stanley in Suez on 6 February.

In January 1803 Acting-Lieutenant Charles Robbins in the schooner Cumberland sailed right around Port Phillip.

Blommaert was investigated in Amsterdam by the board of the East-India Company on January 30, 1616 about a vessel, named Mauritius de Nassau, sailed from a Dutch port, under the command of Jan Remmetszoon, of Purmerend.

Eventually, the brothers sailed back to New York, and, in January 1800, they arrived in England, where they stayed for the next fifteen years.

He sailed again for Australia and arrived in Melbourne in January 1857.

The USAT President Polk, a cargo liner impressed into service as an Army transport, embarked 55 P-40s, an equal number of pilots and ground crews gathered from four groups based in California ( including 27 pilots off the President Garfield ), and sailed without escort on 18 December, reaching Brisbane on 13 January 1942.

The expedition sailed in January 1761, and, landing at Alexandria, ascended the Nile.

Returning by the coast of Asia, he again sailed to the south, sojourned for three weeks at the Sandwich Islands, and on January 1, 1817 discovered New Year Island.

*, was a Kearsarge class battleship launched 24 March 1898, sailed with the Great White Fleet and sold for scrapping 23 January 1924

Since this victory completed the last major task of the Union Navy during the Civil War, Brooklyn sailed north and was decommissioned at the New York Navy Yard on January 31, 1865.

Promoted to Major on 15 January 1918, he was given command of the 108th Field Signal Battalion ( the Signal Battalion for the 33rd Infantry Division ) and sailed to France with this unit.

In January 1809 they sailed to Portugal to join the forces under Sir Arthur Wellesley.

On 31 January 1805 he sailed from Portsmouth for Gambia, having been given a captain's commission as head of the government expedition.

Du Pont sailed before his family and landed at Rhode Island on 1 January 1800, along with his father and his brother's family.

They captured several vessels in January 1722, then sailed into Ouidah harbour with black flags flying.

The schooner Ann was seized by the Patriots on January 8 and sailed to Gibraltar, Michigan.

On 1 October 1810, having seen his work at Cawnpore rewarded on the previous day by the opening of a church, he left for Calcutta, from where he sailed on 7 January 1811 for Bombay.