Portal:The arts/Selected anniversaries/January


 * 1 January 1818 – Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is published anonymously in London
 * 7 January 1927 – The Scottish Arts and Crafts architect Fred Rowntree (pictured) dies in London at the age of 66
 * 13 January 1782 – Friedrich Schiller's play The Robbers, an important work in the German Sturm and Drang movement, premieres in Mannheim and is an overnight sensation
 * 22 January 1956 – Camera Three, a Sunday morning television program devoted to the arts is launched by CBS
 * 24 January 1925 – Maria Tallchief, the first Native American to become a prima ballerina, is born in Fairfax, Oklahoma