In January 1846, a peculiar skull was taken from the banks of Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales.

Burial Hill ( now Flagstaff railway station ) became its home ground in January 1839, however, the area was already set aside for Botanical Gardens and the club was moved on in October 1846, to an area on the south bank of the Yarra about where the Herald and Weekly Times building is today.

The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846

* US Patent 1, 647 ( Reissue # 79 ), Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the application of electro-magnetism, January 15, 1846

* January 10 – William F. " Buffalo Bill " Cody, American frontiersman ( b. 1846 )

* January 31 – The Corn Laws are abolished the next year in the United Kingdom ( following legislation in 1846 ).

* January 31 – Rodolphe Töpffer, a Swiss teacher, author, and artist ( d. 1846 )

* January 20 – Indiana University Bloomington is founded as the Indiana State Seminary ( renamed Indiana College, 1846 ).

He achieved more recognition with his Snob Papers ( serialised 1846 / 7, published in book form in 1848 ), but the work that really established his fame was the novel Vanity Fair, which first appeared in serialised instalments beginning in January 1847.

The state capital was moved from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery, on January 28, 1846.

The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.

Publication ran from August 28, 1844 to January 15, 1846.

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.

On 27 January 1846, Peel gave a three-hour speech saying that the Corn Laws would be abolished on 1 February 1849 after three years of gradual reductions of the tariff, leaving only a 1 shilling duty per quarter.

On January 3, 1846, Representative Robert Winthrop ridiculed the concept in Congress, saying " I suppose the right of a manifest destiny to spread will not be admitted to exist in any nation except the universal Yankee nation ".

In January 1846, part of Milwaukee County was split off into Waukesha County.

Charles Piazzi Smyth ( 3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900 ), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The record highest temperature was in July 1846 and the record lowest temperature was on January 29, 1873.

Portions of the township were taken on March 4, 1822 to form Centreville Township ( which was restored in 1829 when the Centreville was dissolved ), on March 10, 1846 to form Upper Pittsgrove Township and on January 28, 1893 to form Elmer Borough.

After the family had returned to Rustenburg, Kruger's wife and infant died in January, 1846.

The town was founded on January 22, 1846.

Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811 – 18 January 1898 ) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, dean ( 1855 – 91 ) of Christ Church, Oxford, headmaster ( 1846 – 55 ) of Westminster School ( where a house is now named after him ), author of A History of Rome ( 1857 ), and co-author ( with Robert Scott ) of the monumental work A Greek-English Lexicon, which is still used by students of Greek.

Louis-Pierre Baltard ( 9 July 1764 – 22 January 1846 ) was a French architect, and engraver, born in Paris.

She became ill and spent the winter of 1846 in Springfield, Illinois recovering, but her report was ready for the January 1847 legislative session, which promptly adopted legislation establishing Illinois ' first state mental hospital.

There was a 43. 9 percent increase in overall exports during the January to September period.

From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.

Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress ( SANNC ) on 8 January 1912 at the Waaihoek Wesleyan Church in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population.

The textiles sector experienced an approximate 17 % drop in exports due in part to the appreciation of the Dominican peso against the dollar, Asian competition following expiration of the quotas of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement, and a government-mandated increase in salaries, which should have occurred in 2005 but was postponed to January 2006.

On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.

That increase was in addition to raises of 50 and 22 percent set, respectively, in January and September 1990.

The US National Weather Service has a 2. 5 cm ( 1 in ) or greater in diameter threshold, effective January 2010, an increase over the previous threshold of ¾-inch hail.

On January 13, 1888, 33 explorers and scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club, a private club then located on Lafayette Square in Washington, D. C., to organize " a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.

On 1 January 2011, Russia said it had begun scheduled oil shipments to China, with the plan to increase the rate up to 300, 000 barrels per day in 2011.

* January 30 – Hitler gives a speech before the Reichstag calling for an " export battle " to increase German foreign exchange holdings.

After 27 January 2017, the proportion will increase to 40 %.

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.

As of 1 January 2012 estimates, 723, 500 inhabitants live within the city limits, and 794, 800 within the municipality limits, an increase from the figure recorded at the 2004 census.

The website PakistanBodyCount. Org ( by Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a Fulbright Scholar at the Florida Institute of Technology ) shows 1065 civilian deaths between June 2004 to January 30, 2010 and tallying 103 drone strikes carried out by the U. S. With the increase of drone strikes, according to the most recent story in The International News, January 2010 proved to be a deadly month in Pakistan with 123 innocent civilians killed.

CNN's debate and election night coverage led to its highest ratings of the year, with January 2008 viewership averaging 1. 1 million viewers, a 41 % increase over the previous year.

On 31 January 1830, the Polignac government decided to send a military expedition to Algeria to put an end to the threat the Algerian pirates posed to Mediterranean trade and also increase the government's popularity by a victory.

Belgium had a population of 10, 839, 905 people on January 1st, 2010, an increase of 601, 000 in comparison to 2000 ( 10, 239, 085 inhabitants ).

On January 12, 2011, Space Adventures and the Russian Federal Space Agency announced that orbital space tourism would resume in 2013 with the increase of manned Soyuz launches to the ISS from four to five per year.

On June 6, 2007, the Census Bureau published a report " Special Population Estimates for Impacted Counties in the Gulf Coast Area " which shows a population increase for Livingston Parish to 111, 863 as of January 1, 2006.

The California State Department of Finance estimates the population of Riverbank as of January 1, 2006 to be 21, 215 people, an estimated 34. 1 % increase since 2000.

* Rhodium bubble of 2008 ( increase from $ 500 / oz to $ 9000 / oz in July 2008, then down to $ 1000 / oz in January 2009 )

On January 5, 2007, reacting to suggestions from President Bush's confidantes that he would increase troop levels in Iraq ( which he announced in a speech a few days later ), Pelosi joined with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to condemn the plan.

By January 2002, four months after the attacks, the CAIR said that it had received 1, 658 reports of discrimination, profiling, harassment, and physical assaults against persons appearing Arab or Muslim, a three-fold increase over the prior year.