The plantation was sold in January, 1845, and Palfrey thought the new owner ought to pay his people two months' wages.

In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).

On January 29, 1845, his poem " The Raven " appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation.

* January 6 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician ( b. 1845 )

* January 17 – Quintin Hogg, British philanthropist ( b. 1845 )

* January 6 – André Besette, Canadian religious leader ( b. 1845 )

* January 4 – Nellie Cashman, Irish-born prospector ( b. 1845 )

In London it was presented for the first time in England on 29 June 1843 at Her Majesty's Theatre, and the United States premiere took place on 7 January 1845 at the Téatre d ' Orleans in New Orleans.

However, as Ruge remained a Young Hegelian in his belief, Marx and Ruge soon split and Ruge left the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher Nonetheless, following the split, Marx remained friendly enough with Ruge that he sent Ruge a warning on January 15, 1845 that the Paris police were going to execute orders against Marx, Ruge and others at the Deutshe-französische Jahrbücher requiring all to leave Paris within 24 hours.

Abel Bennett, who was elected as secretary on January 30, 1845 of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, was the city's first mayor.

He opens his first letter to her, ' I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett ,' and a little later in that first letter he says ' I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart -- and I love you too ' ( January 10, 1845 ).

He was installed as pastor of the Second Congregational Society in January 1845 with a salary sufficient to meet his needs.

First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.

" The Raven " was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.

Quintin Hogg ( 14 February 1845 – 17 January 1903 ) was an English philanthropist, remembered primarily as a benefactor of the Royal Polytechnic institution at Regent Street, London now known as the University of Westminster.

On 4 December 1845 an announcement appeared in The Times that the government had decided to recall Parliament during January 1846 to repeal the Corn Laws.

The name was changed to honor pioneer resident John Prunty on January 23, 1845.

Dallas County is Arkansas's 49th county, formed on January 1, 1845, and named for George M. Dallas, Vice President of the United States.

The Prussian government, angry at the publication of Vorwärts, put pressure on France to deal with its authors and in January 1845 Marx was deported to Belgium.

In January 1845, the Cromford Canal Company decided to have a permanent pump built to provide enough water during dry conditions.

The Township's name was changed to " Wayne " on March 19, 1845, but was changed back to Romulus on January 16, 1848.

In January, 1845 one hundred and fifty delegates from eleven counties assembled in St. Paul's Lutheran Church to call for political action to redress their grievances.

The first water passed through the system in January 1845.

Thus in January 1845, the Hartford Post Office ceased to exist and the Post Office named Oak Harbor came into being.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.

The Poe Toaster's last appearance was on January 19, 2009, the day of Poe's bicentennial.

* January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.

* January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet ( d. 1849 )

* January 29 – " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time ( New York Evening Mirror ).

On January 28, 2010, Poe performed several songs live as part of a charity benefit concert in LA.

* Edgar Allan Poe, Review of Lieber's Reminiscences of Niebuhr, from Southern Literary Messenger, January 1836.

* American author Edgar Allan Poe prints the final edition of the Broadway Journal, a journal he owned for only a few months, with the final issue dated January 3, 1846.

* January 19-Edgar Allan Poe, poet, short story writer and literary critic ( died 1849 )

Though Sartain's was the first authorized printing in January 1850, Griswold was the first to publish it on October 9, 1849, two days after Poe's death as part of his obituary of Poe in the New York Daily Tribune.

Poe's most significant source was the explorer Jeremiah N. Reynolds, whose work Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas was reviewed favorably by Poe in January 1837.

However, Poe retired from his role at the Messenger on January 3, 1837, as the installments were being published ; some scholars suggest he was fired and this led him to abandoning the novel.

However, on January 9, 2004, Victorino X. Fornier ( a private citizen ) filed a case against Poe and the COMELEC, saying that Poe wasn't eligible to run for he is not a natural-born Filipino before the COMELEC.

Another friend of Poe, Henry B. Hirst, suggested in the January 22, 1848, issue of the Saturday Courier that Poe had found the " leading idea " of the poem in a work by Thomas Buchanan Read.

In January 2005, Poe founded and cosponsored the Congressional Victims ’ Rights Caucus to represent and advocate before the United States Congress and the Administration on behalf of victims.