In January 1777 four regiments of light dragoons were raised.

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

* January 27 – Samuel Foote, English dramatist and actor ( d. 1777 )

* January 1 – John George Children, British chemist, mineralogist and zoologist ( b. 1777 )

* January 31 – John Cheyne ( physician ), British physician, surgeon and author ( b. 1777 )

* January 29 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer ( d. 1777 )

Vermont eventually declared itself an independent nation in January 1777, and organized a government based in Windsor.

The respectable Royal Society made him a member on 9 January 1777 though he was not even 23 years old.

) The first Indian marriage was blessed by Father Mugártegui on the feast of the " Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary ," January 23, 1777.

The mission, the eighth Spanish mission built in California, was founded on January 12, 1777 and named for Saint Clare of Assisi, the foundress of the order of the Poor Clares.

The outpost was originally established as La Misión Santa Clara de Thamien ( or Mission Santa Clara de Thamien ) at the Indian village of So-co-is-u-ka ( meaning " Laurelwood ", located on the Guadalupe River ) January 12, 1777.

On January 3, 1777, an excerpt from an anonymous letter was published in Inrikes Tidningar.

Grand Isle County is one of several Vermont counties created from land ceded by the state of New York on January 15, 1777 when Vermont declared itself to be a distinct state from New York.

The county is named for Continental Army General Hugh Mercer, who died as a result of wounds received at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777.

He crossed a third time in a surprise attack on the forces of General Charles Cornwallis at the Second Battle of Trenton on January 2, 1777 and at the Battle of Princeton on January 3.

Originally called " Sandtown ," Mercerville is named after General Hugh Mercer who died on January 12, 1777 due to wounds incurred at the Battle of Princeton.

At this spot in what is now known as Boundbrook on January 4, 1777, General Washington made the decision to abandon any intention to attack New Brunswick.

In January 1777, rebels were victorious against the British in the Battle of Spanktown, which resulted in the death of some 100 British troops.

The Harecastle Tunnel finally opened in 1777 and coal was finally transported from the Midlands to the Thames at Oxford in January 1790, some 18 years after Brindley's death.

Spranger Barry ( left ) as Romeo Montague | Romeo to Maria Isabella Nossiter's Juliet Capulet | Juliet in William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Covent Garden in 1759. Spranger Barry ( 23 November 1719 – 10 January 1777 ) was an Irish actor.

Johann Jakob Griesbach ( January 4, 1745 – March 24, 1812 ), German biblical textual critic, was born at Butzbach, a small town in the state of Hesse-Darmstadt, where his father, Konrad Kaspar ( 1705 – 1777 ), was pastor.

Henry Hallam ( 9 July 1777 – 21 January 1859 ) was an English historian.

The Battle of Princeton ( January 3, 1777 ) was a battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey.

On the night of January 2, 1777 George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton.

However, on January 7, 2008, George W. Bush appointee H. Dale Hall, Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ( USFWS ), signed a recommendation to abandon jaguar recovery as a federal goal under the Endangered Species Act.

On 1 January 1964, the island municipality of Grip ( population: 104 ) and the Dale area on Nordlandet island ( population: 963 ) were merged into Kristiansund.

In January, 2010, it was announced that Davison City Manager Dale Martin and Davison Township, Michigan Supervisor Kurt Soper had begun preliminary meetings discussing the possibility of merging the two municipalities.

In January, 2010, it was announced that Davison, Michigan City Manager Dale Martin and Davison Township Supervisor Kurt Soper had begun preliminary meetings discussing the possibility of merging the two municipalities.

Verlon Dale Bigham ( April 26, 1916 – January 8, 2010 ), a Lubbock businessman, owned the Bigham IX Ranch located near his birthplace in Roaring Springs.

Dale Leon Bumpers ( born August 12, 1925 ) is an American politician who served as the 38th Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975 ; and then in the United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999.

* Transcript: Former Senator Dale Bumpers – Senate Floor January 21, 1999

Helen Dale ( born 24 January 1972 ), also known as Helen Darville and Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer.

McKinstry, along with Dale and Spivey, designed an experiment that has now been published in Psychological Science in its January, 2008 issue.

In January, Stewart teamed with Andy Wallace and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in a Boss Motorsports Chevrolet to take fourth in the 24 Hours of Daytona sports car endurance race.

The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940 at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana.

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Richard Dale, Jr. – January 2, 1795 to 1815.

John Montgomery Dale – January 4, 1797 to December 15, 1852.

Sarah Barry Dale – January 14, 1804 to March 6, 1839

Dale Jarrett's 2000 Daytona 500 winning car on display at Daytona USA ( museum ) | Daytona USA, taken January 2001

Currently the active Senior Judges within the District of Utah include: Bruce S. Jenkins, David Sam, Dale A. Kimball, who assumed senior status on November 30, 2009, and Tena Campbell, who assumed senior status on January 1, 2011.

The paper is the home of cartoonist Mike Peters, who draws the Mother Goose and Grimm strip and won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1981, and columnist Dale Huffman, who had written a daily metro column every day for more than eight years before beginning a hiatus on January 30, 2008 after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Debuting on January 7, 1934, Raymond's first Flash strip introduced the " world-famous polo player ", improbably roped into a space adventure alongside love-interest Dale Arden and scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov.

* Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight # 102: " Spook: Part I " ( with James Dale Robinson, January 1998 )

After discovering he could perform a convincing American accent, Dale attended the film's premiere, finally moving with his family to the United States permanently in January 2000.

On 24 January Rotherham signed two scrum halves on trial, Dale Farnham joined from Plymouth Albion ; and Danny Matthews who had previously played at Leeds Met University alongside team mates Barney Maddison and Ben Hooper while playing at the University.

* 2009 – Dale Swenson, Kansas State Representative from Wichita switched January 12, 2009 moments after being sworn into office as Republican for eighth term In 2010, Swenson's Democratic opponent in 2008, Leslie Osterman, switched to Republican and defeated Swenson.