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January 2018

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Monday, January 1

Time:	All day event
Summary:	John Wilkins born, 1614.
Description:	John Wilkins (1 January 1614–19 November 1672) was an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, a founder of the Royal Society, and Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. He is particularly known for An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language in which, amongst other things, he proposed a universal language and a decimal system of measure not unlike the modern metric system.

Wednesday, January 3

Time:	All day event
Summary:	J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle Earth and its languages, born, 1892

Thursday, January 4

Time:	All day event
Summary:	Jakob Grimm (of Grimm's Law and folktale fame) born, 1785.

Friday, January 5

Time:	All day event
Summary:	A monument to Ivar Aasen, creator of Nynorsk, is unveiled in Oslo, 1996.
Description:	(noted in Limits of Language by Mikael Parkvall)

Sunday, January 7

Time:	All day event
Summary:	Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, born Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, ("reviver" of Hebrew) in Luzhky, Lithuania, 1858.

Saturday, January 13

Time:	All day event
Summary:	Paul Passy, French linguist, founder of the International Phonetic Association, born, 1859.

Tuesday, January 16

Time:	All day event
Summary:	The inception of the CONLANG/AUXLANG split, 1996

Thursday, January 18

Time:	All day event
Summary:	James Evans, missionary who created syllabaries for various Algonquin languages, born, 1801.
Description:	James Evans (January 18, 1801 – November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his creation of the "syllabic" writing system for Ojibwe and Cree, which was later adapted to other languages such as Inuktitut.

Friday, January 19

Time:	All day event
Summary:	Dr. Victoria Fromkin, creator of Pakuni, dies, 2000.

Friday, January 26

Time:	All day event
Summary:	Edward Sapir is born, 1884.

Saturday, January 27

Time:	6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Summary:	Conlang meetup