Template:On this day/January 5

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

January 5:

• 1805 – Thomas Jefferson writes a letter to Littleton W. Tazewell, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Jefferson proposes that a university “should not be a house but a village.”
• 2023 – At the closing of the regular council meeting, Sena Magill announced that that she was resigning from the council to attend to her family. In the 2019 election she received the largest number of votes collected in history by a Charlottesville city council candidate.