Begins 10 days after the winter solstice

Usage examples of january.

WITH JOSEPH BASS AT HIS SIDE, Adams crossed Long Bridge over the frozen Charles River and rode into Cambridge in the early afternoon of January 24, 1776, in time to dine with General Washington at the temporary quarters of Colonel Thomas Mifflin near Harvard Yard.

By early January, 1787, Adams had rushed the first installment of his effort to a London printer.

Not long after, however, Adams did receive a letter from Abigail, written at Quincy on January 15, 1797: The cold has been more severe than I can ever before recollect.

When in the predawn hours of January 27, a terrible fire ripped through the home and shop of the Philadelphia printer and publisher of the Federal Gazette, Andrew Brown, taking the lives of his wife and children, Adams was conspicuous among the men handing up buckets to fight the blaze.

At Ghent the same month, the American commissioners led by John Quincy Adams signed a peace treaty with Britain, news that would not reach the United States until February, by which time Americans under General Andrew Jackson had won a decisive victory, on January 15, at the battle of New Orleans.

The last course that I heard from Agassiz in Cambridge began on October 23, 1867, and closed on January 11, 1868.

A parallel team of FBI agents from the New York JTTF had been tracking these cell members prior to the Harrisburg sessions, but in January of 1993, just weeks before the Trade Center blast - reportedly out of a concern that this second probe was sapping FBI manpower - Carson Dunbar shut it down as well.

Emergency Court of Appeals organized by the Emergency Price Control Act of January 30, 1942.

Alfred William Henry Curtis Moreland would be at home after January the first in the Rectory, Appleblossom Court, Parklane Road, Tilbury-onthe-Stoke.

The ideal time for establishment of their beachhead in Auca territory would be early January during the full of the moon.

Cohen had received little support from his embassy or his superiors in Tel Aviv, but early on Sunday, January 4, the station wagon with Saul, Natalie, and two American-born Israeli agents passed over the Peace Bridge from Niagara Falls, New York, to Niagara Falls, Canada.

He was, he says, on his way to Ayrshire, one stormy day in January, and had made himself comfortable, in spite of the snow-drift, over a smoking bowl, at an inn at the Sanquhar, when in wheeled the whole funeral pageantry of Mrs.

Lord Middlethorpe, who had just consulted his pocket watch, it was precisely six minutes after eleven in the evening, and Susannah Ballister knew quite well that the day was Thursday and the date was January the twenty-seventh, the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.

Thursday, 27 January 1814, Susannah Ballister made three wishes, none of which came true.

Wavell had arrived in Batavia on January 10, and established his headquarters near Bandoeng, the centre of the Dutch Army Command.