* 1805 January – The great epidemic ended.

* January 2 – John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist ( b. 1805 )

* January 11 – Mariano Ospina Rodríguez, President of Colombia ( b. 1805 )

* January 8 – José Trinidad Cabañas, a Honduran General, President and National Hero ( b. 1805 )

* January 12 – Ida, Countess von Hahn-Hahn, author ( b. 1805 )

* January 19 – Esteban Echeverría, Argentine poet and writer ( b. 1805 )

* January 26 – Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader ( d. 1805 )

On Thursday, December 12, 1805, in the ninth Congress, Senator Stephen Row Bradley of Vermont gave notice that he would, bring in a bill to prohibit the importation of certain persons therein described " into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States, from and after the first day of January ", which will be " in the year of our Lord 1808 ", The " certain persons " were described as being slaves on Monday, December 16, 1805.

# Maria Teresa of Savoy ( 31 January 1756 – 2 June 1805 ) married Charles, Count of Artois in 1773, had issue.

* Madison Hemings ( possibly named James Madison Hemings ) ( January 19, 1805 – 1877 )

( LAWS OF MARYLAND, NOVEMBER 1804 ~ ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, CHAP, LXX ; Passed January 19, 1805 ) Here again the term of art references " limits " which are used only in incorporated towns and must exist to specify jurisdictional limits and the points from which they may extend.

The First Presbyterian church of Sand Lake was organized, January 7, 1805, by members of the Congregational church in Nassau, who united with Presbyterians residing in Sand Lake to form the new society.

On January 28, 1805, having completed its work of apportioning land and establishing the church, school and library, the Scioto Company was dissolved ( McCormick 1998: 76 ).

Charles Townley ( 1 October 1737 – 3 January 1805 ) was an English country gentleman, antiquary and collector of the Townley Marbles ( or Towneley Marbles ).

The town was incorporated January 16, 1805.

Claude Chappe ( December 25, 1763 – January 23, 1805 ) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France.

In The Plumb-pudding in danger ( 1805 ), James Gillray caricatured overtures made by Napoleon in January 1805 for a reconciliation with Britain.

* Notice historique sur M. Méchain, lue le 5 messidor XIII ( Baudouin, Paris, January 1806 ; this is the eulogy on the late Pierre Méchain, read at the Academy by Secretary Delambre on June 24, 1805 )

* William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland ( 30 July 1801 – 14 January 1805 )

* Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth ( 14 January 1805 – 10 July 1805 )

James Martineau ( 21 April 1805 – 11 January 1900 ) was an English religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.

William Harrison Ainsworth ( 4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882 ) was an English historical novelist born in Manchester.

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile ; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who was removed from the throne on 4 January 1248.

Upon Gassmann's death on 22 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.

He succeeded his father, Tewfik Pasha, as Khedive of Egypt and Sudan on 8 January 1892.

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

A government formed of a coalition of the ODS, KDU-ČSL, and the Green Party ( SZ ), and led by the leader of the ODS Mirek Topolánek finally succeeded in winning a vote of confidence on 19 January 2007.

After some reverses, UN and Congolese government forces succeeded in recapturing the breakaway provinces of South Kasai on 30 December 1961, and Katanga on 15 January 1963.

Kabila was assassinated in January 2001 by one of his bodyguards, and was succeeded by his son Joseph.

In 15 January 2007, the social-democrat Rafael Correa succeeded Palacio as President of Ecuador, with the promise of summoning a Constituent Assembly, and bringing focus on poverty.

Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was sworn in as Prime Minister on January 29, 2011, in response to the 2011 Egyptian revolution ; he was succeeded on 5 March by Essam Sharaf, in response to continued protests.

Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.

He died in January 1547 at the age of 55 and was succeeded by his son, Edward VI.

Windows XP lasted longer as Microsoft's flagship operating system than any other version of Windows, from 25 October 2001 to 30 January 2007 when it was succeeded by Windows Vista.

The coalition succeeded in passing landmark political reform legislation in January 1994.

He was succeeded by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, who served from January 1996 to July 1998.

Tito also succeeded Ivan Ribar as the President of Yugoslavia on 14 January 1953.

Turki ibn Said succeeded in defeating the forces of Imam Azzam, who was killed in battle outside Matrah in January 1871.

The negotiations succeeded ; while the war was in its final phase King William of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors in the Château de Versailles.

Askin retired from politics in January 1975 and was succeeded by Lewis as Premier.

But finally, three months after Sputnik 2, the project succeeded ; Explorer 1 thus became the United States ' first artificial satellite on January 31, 1958.

Nerva died on 27 January 98, and was succeeded by his adopted son without incident.

When Nerva died on 27 January 98, the highly respected Trajan succeeded without incident.

* January 4 – Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California, is succeeded by Earl Warren.

* January 2 – Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I.

* January 10 – John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California, is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford.