Template:On this day/January 7
- 1861 – Charles Henry Bliss was born.
- 1862 – Civil War: Union troops at Fort Pickens bombard the Confederate-held Fort Barrancas with cannon fire.
- 1870 – Henry Clay Armstrong was born.
- 1872 – Max L. Bear was born.
- 1977 – Joe Mooney begins his service as the first Escambia County Administrator.