Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/January/January 1

• 1881 – Paris Commune leader Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805) dies, Paris. A huge crowd attends his funeral. Anarchist Louise Michel (pictured), among delegates & labor figures in attendance.
• 1895 – German anarchist, Rudolf Rocker arrives in London.
• 1898 – First Rio Grande do Sul State Congress, January 1-2. First formal meeting of workers to take up social ideas in Brazil, 10 organizations, including one identified as anarchist.
• 1900 – Daijiro Furuta born. Japanese anarchist, member of the Guillotine Society (Girochin Sha), an anarchist terrorist group.
• 1919 – Sara Berenguer born, Barcelona. Poet, anarchist member of Mujeres Libres.
• 1932 – The Nation magazine includes Emma Goldman's Living My Life among its list of most notable books of 1931.
• 1984 – Augustin Souchy (1892-1984), German anarchist pacifist, dies (age 92).
• 1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation declares war on the Mexican state, to protest the implementation of NAFTA.
• 2000 – Arthur Lehning (1899-2000) dies (age 100). Anarchist, anti-militarist, former secretary of the anarcho-syndicalist International Workers' Association (1932-1935), essayist, and the sole editor of the avant-garde journal i 10.