By late 1824, Monroe approved Calhoun's plans and in a special message to the Senate on January 27, 1825, requested the creation of the Arkansas Territory and Indian Territory.

Polk courted Sarah Childress, and they married on January 1, 1824.

* January 14 – Víctor Balaguer, Spanish politician and author, ( born 1824 )

* January 22 – George Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet ( d. 1824 )

* January 10 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter ( b. 1824 )

* January 14 – Richard Meux Benson, English founder of an Anglican religious order ( b. 1824 )

* January 22, 1824 – The Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast, killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy ( see also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy ).

* January 8, 1824 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.

* January 24, 1824 – The Westminster Review, No1.

Other works by Telford include the St Katharine Docks ( 1824 – 1828 ) close to Tower Bridge in central London, where he worked with the architect Philip Hardwick, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal ( today known as the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal ), Over Bridge near Gloucester, the second Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal ( 1827 ), and the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal ( today part of the Shropshire Union Canal ) — started in May 1826 but finished, after Telford's death, in January 1835.

# Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia ( 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824 ) married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este in 1789, had issue.

Victor Emmanuel I ( 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824 ) was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia ( 1802-21 ).

* 12 March 1821 – 10 January 1824 His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel

On January 31, 1824, the decree to create a Constitutive Act of the Mexican Federation was issued, which incorporated the basic structure of the Federal Republic.

" Cantonment Brooke " was established on January 10, 1824, by Colonels George Mercer Brooke and James Gadsden at the mouth of the Hillsborough River on Tampa Bay, at the site of the Tampa Convention Center in Downtown Tampa.

On January 22, 1824, the post was officially named Fort Brooke.

Spencer County was formed in January 1824, by the 32nd Kentucky General Assembly.

In 1821, Parke County was formed, and on January 2, 1824, the Indiana General Assembly created Vermillion County out of Parke County ; the act took effect on February 1.

Mr. Wellman was born in Lawrence County, Kentucky on 12 May 1824, acquired his farm in 1859, and died in Wellman on 14 January 1901.

* Andoche Alfred Michel Junot, 3rd Duc d ' Abrantes ( Ciudad Rodrigo, 25 November 1810 – killed in action at Brescia, 19 July 1859 ), married firstly on 2 April 1845 Marie Céline Elise Lepic ( 9 October 1824 – 6 June 1847 ), and married secondly on 10 January 1853 Marie Louise Léonie Lepic ( 19 July 1829 – 17 August 1868 ), both sisters, daughters of Joachim Lepic, 1st Baron Lepic, and wife Anne-Marguerite Pasquier, and had:

* January 18-Julius Eichberg, composer ( b. 1824 )

* January 23-Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer and music critic ( b. 1824 )

In January 1824, Pushkin stopped work on Onegin to work on The Gypsies.

Chapter 4 was started in October 1824, by the end of the year Pushkin had written 23 stanzas and had reached XXVII by January 5, 1825, at which point he started writing stanzas for Onegin's Journey and worked on other pieces of writing.

Addison was promoted to assistant physician on January 14, 1824 and in 1827 he was appointed lecturer of materia medica.

" Down and Out in Paris and London was published on 9 January 1933, as Orwell continued to work on Burmese Days.

On 1 January 1886, the millennium-old Burmese monarchy and its military arm, the Royal Burmese Army, were formally abolished by the British.

Following the end of World War II, ambassador-level diplomatic relationships between France and Burma were established in 1948, soon after the Burmese nation became an independent republic on January 4, 1948, as Union of Burma, with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu as its first Prime Minister.

On the 13th of January 2012, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the US will exchange ambassadors with Burma, after a landmark Burmese political prisoner amnesty .< ref > British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC )– US to exchange ambassadors with Burma, < http :// www. bbc. co. uk / news / world-asia-16554415 >.

Siamese King Naresuan fighting the Burmese crown prince Mingyi Swa at the battle of Yuthahatthi in January 1593.

* January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.

* January – King Tabinshwehti of Burma begins his invasion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the Burmese – Siamese War ( 1548 – 49 ).

The city fell to the Thai armies in January 1775, but the Burmese Governor and the commander managed to escape with their families.

The Union of Myanmar ( the official name of Burma ) has regularly conducted limited low-intensity military campaigns against the independence movement of the Karen people in an area of southeast Burma ( roughly corresponding to a Burmese administrative region called the Kayin State ), which has actively pursued independence since January 1949.

British soldiers on patrol in the ruins of the Burmese town of Bahe during the advance on Mandalay, January 1945

The new executive council, which now had increased credibility in the country, began negotiations for Burmese independence, which were concluded successfully in London as the Aung San-Attlee Agreement on January 27, 1947.

Thakin Nu, the Socialist leader, was now asked to form a new cabinet, and he presided over Burmese independence on January 4, 1948.

The Palaung State Liberation Army was a rebel group which fought against the Burmese government starting from January 1963 but entered a cease-fire agreement with the Burmese government in April 1991.

The area became Sagaing Division after the Burmese independence in January 1948.

The Japanese Fifteenth Army under Lieutenant General Shojiro Iida, initially consisting of only two infantry divisions, moved into northern Thailand ( which had signed a treaty of friendship with Japan ), and launched an attack over jungle-clad mountain ranges into the southern Burmese province of Tenasserim in January 1942.

* U Nu's speech on Burmese independence, January 4, 1948

A booklet was published in January 1963 in both Burmese and English languages entitled ' Special Characteristics of the Burma Socialist Programme Party '.

It is claimed that Khun Sa surrendered to Burmese officials in January 1996, reportedly because he did not want to face drug smuggling charges in the USA.

In January 1765, a 20, 000-strong Burmese army led by Ne Myo Thihapate based in Chiang Mai invaded the Laotian states.

The Burmese forces reached the outskirts of Ayutthaya on 20 January 1766.

The main Chinese army overran Burmese defenses and reached Singu, 30 miles north of Ava around late January 1768.

In January 1770, they marched to Manipur where a rebellion had begun, taking advantage of Burmese troubles with the Chinese.