Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

After spending the last weeks of 1833 collecting information he presented his findings in January 1834 to the American Journal of Science and Arts, published in January – April 1834, and January 1836.

* January 3 – Felix Dahn, writer ( b. 1834 ).

* January 31 – Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder ( b. 1834 )

* January 5 – Léon Walras, French economist ( b. 1834 )

* January 5 – Robert Morrison, Scottish Protestant missionary to China ( d. 1834 )

* January 7 – Big Jim Fisk, American financier ( b. 1834 )

* January 31 – Charles Spurgeon, English preacher ( b. 1834 )

* January 17 – Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer ( b. 1834 )

* January 16 – Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland ( d. 1834 )

* January 8 – Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution ( d. 1834 )

He arrived in Cape Town on 15 January 1834 and set up a private telescope at Feldhausen at Wynberg.

Friedrich Leopold August Weismann ( 17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914 ) was a German evolutionary biologist.

Weismann was born a son of high school teacher Johann ( Jean ) Konrad Weismann ( 1804 – 1880 ), a graduate of ancient languages and theology, and his wife Elise ( 1803 – 1850 ), née Lübbren, the daughter of the county councillor and mayor von Stade, on January 17, 1834 in Frankfurt am Main.

Karl Ewald Konstantin Hering ( August 5, 1834 – January 26, 1918 ) was a German physiologist who did much research into color vision and spatial perception.

Berlioz took full advantage of his times as editor, allowing himself to increase his articles written on music history rather than current events, evidenced by him publishing seven articles on Gluck in the Gazette between June 1834 and January 1835.

Rivers was born in 1864 at Constitution Hill, Chatham, Kent, son of Elizabeth Hunt ( 16 October 1834 – 13 November 1897 ) and Henry Frederick Rivers ( 7 January 1830 – 9 December 1911 ).

Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834 from Alachua and Monroe counties.

Amilcare Ponchielli (, August 31, 1834 – January 16, 1886 ) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.

On January 8, 1801, the town Waynesborough was officially recognized by the state of Virginia, and was incorporated by 1834.

On January 18, Ernest Gross conducted a press conference at the U.N. lasting an hour.

The preliminaries ended with the publication of Steele's Crisis on January 19, and from that point on the fight proceeded at a rapid pace.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

All three of these time scales were defined to read JD 2443144. 5003725 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 32. 184 ) exactly at that instant.

Two 13-person juries composed of artists, academics, critics and AFI Trustees deliberate, discuss and determine the honored ensembles, who are then feted at a private event in January.

In comparison between the January to October periods of 2010 and 2009, depreciation stands at 4. 7 percent.

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

It then toured to other states, with the final appearance at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on 21 January 2007.

He there entered the service of Henry II of France and had undertaken a campaign to regain his lands when he died at Pforzheim on 8 January 1557.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

In January 40, Domitius died of edema ( dropsy ) at Pyrgi.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (, Milij Alekseevič Balakirev, ) ( 2 January 1837 < small >< nowiki > 21 December 1836 </ small > – ), was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian composers, notably Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

After a campaign in Munster in January 1600, during which the English Plantation of Munster was destroyed, he hastened north to Donegal, where he received supplies from Spain and a token of encouragement from Pope Clement VIII.

Following encouragement from Keegan, Fowler finally signed for Manchester City on 16 January 2003 for an initial fee of £ 3 million and a further £ 3 million dependent upon appearances.

With encouragement by the Government, officials from all 4 parties had meetings with each other and after finding some common ground, merged all of the 4 Islamic parties in Indonesia into the United Development Party on 5 January 1973.

By late January Potemkin had tired of the impasse and effected ( perhaps with encouragement from Catherine ) a " melodramatic retreat " into the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

In the meantime, Beşiktaş Ottoman Gymnastics Club became the first registered Turkish sports club on January 13, 1910 with the encouragement of Beyoğlu Governor Muhittin Bey.

In January 1946 he created an uproar by claiming at a press conference that there was a secret Zionist organisation that was attempting to facilitate an " exodus " of Jewish people from Europe to a new state in Palestine with Soviet encouragement.

In January 1839, following the announcements of photographic processes by both William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, Llewelyn, with the encouragement of Henry Talbot, began to experiment himself.