On January 24, 1776, Henry Knox arrived with artillery captured from Fort Ticonderoga, which enabled Washington to drive the British army out of Boston.

* Johann Wilhelm Ritter, chemist and physicist, born December 16, 1776 in nearby Samitz, died January 23, 1810 in Munich

It became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America.

* Tory Act University of Tulsa ; Order of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 2 January 1776

In January 1776, just as it became clear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was published.

On June 15, the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, which had been governing the province since January 1776, resolved that Royal Governor William Franklin was " an enemy to the liberties of this country " and had him arrested.

* January 23 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist ( b. 1776 )

The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774

On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.

In January 1776 he took his place with Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott as the Connecticut delegation in Philadelphia.

General Henry Knox passed through the town in January 1776, bringing cannons from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to aid in ending the Siege of Boston, a route now known as the Knox Trail.

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As a famous story of Muhlenberg has it, at conclusion of his farewell sermon on January 21, 1776, Muhlenberg threw off his clerical robes to reveal an officer's uniform beneath and shouted, " there is a time to pray and a time to fight ..." With that declaration, the story says he then called for volunteers to join the 8th Virginia Regiment under his command.

On January 2, 1847, his story " Fourth of July, 1776 " appeared in Saturday Review magazine.

*, was a row galley acquired in January 1776 with an unknown fate after August the same year

Johann Joseph von Görres ( 25 January 1776 – 29 January 1848 ) was a German writer and journalist.

Barthold Georg Niebuhr ( August 27, 1776, Copenhagen – January 2, 1831, Bonn ) was a Danish-German statesman and historian who became Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome and a founding father of modern scholarly historiography.

* January 2-Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian ( born 1776 )

It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution.

In January 1776 Howe's role as commander in chief was cemented with a promotion to full general in North America.

Abraham Raimbach ( 16 February 1776 – 17 January 1843 ), was an English line-engraver of Swiss descent.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense ( January 10 )

William remained as governor until January of 1776 when colonial militiamen placed him under house arrest until the middle of June.

Eugene Allen " Gene " Hackman ( born January 30, 1930 ) is a retired American actor and novelist.

Paul Gardner Allen ( born January 21, 1953 ) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation along with Bill Gates, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

Paul Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents Kenneth Samuel Allen, an associate director of the University of Washington libraries, and Edna Faye ( née Gardner ) Allen, on January 21, 1953.

On January 31, 2009, Paul Allen received a special merit award from the Oregon Sports Authority.

After the death of Lombardi and Austin's unsuccessful 1970 season, Williams signed former Los Angeles Rams head coach George Allen as head coach on January 6, 1971.

* Polly Klaas ( January 3, 1981-October 1993 ) was kidnapped by Richard Allen Davis from her home during a sleepover party.

* January 4 – Charles Allen, British television magnate

* January 29 – Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( b. 1893 )

* January 7 – Ira Allen, founder of Vermont and leader of the Green Mountain Boys ( born 1751 )

* January 21 – Ethan Allen, American patriot ( d. 1789 )

His playing can be heard on recordings by Henry " Red " Allen from July 1929 (" Biff ' ly Blues " and " Feeling Drowsy "), and Barbarin played on the first recordings by Louis Armstrong to feature the instrument – " Rockin ' Chair " ( December 1929 ) and " Song of the Islands " ( January 1930 ).

Lew Allen, Jr. ( September 30, 1925 January 4, 2010 ) was a United States Air Force four-star General who served as the tenth Chief of Staff of the U. S. Air Force.

In January 1982, following the resignation of National Security Adviser Allen, the President appointed a close personal friend, Deputy Secretary of State William Clark, as his new adviser.

In January 1977, four years prior to becoming president, Reagan bluntly stated, in a conversation with Richard V. Allen, his basic expectation in relation to the Cold War.

With the support of Long's voter base and the Old Regular machine, Allen won easily, permitting Long to resign as governor and take his seat in the U. S. Senate in January 1932 with his chosen successor already ensconced in the state house.

In January 1961, the most famous RBA-Young Contemporaries of all put David Hockney, the American R B Kitaj, Allen Jones, Derek Boshier, Patrick Caulfield, Peter Phillips and Peter Blake on the map.

This town was originally laid out by John Warner, Christopher M. Allen, Daniel A. Allen and William P. Records, January 18, 1837.

Burns and Allen met in 1922 and first performed together at the Hill Street Theatre in Newark, New Jersey, continued in small town vaudeville theaters, married in Cleveland on January 7, 1926, and moved up a notch when they signed with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum circuit in 1927.

Along the way, the duo launched the temporary running gag that made them near-irrevocable radio stars: the famous hunt for Gracie's " lost brother ," which began on January 4, 1933 and eventually became a cross-network phenomenon --- Gracie was also liable to turn up on other shows ( especially those produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, which produced the Burns & Allen series ) looking for her brother.