Historical Events In January - 19
1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War
1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdágne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona
1668 King Louis XIV & Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain
1714 Richard Steele publishes "The Crisis," defending Hanoverian success
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)
1790 Second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove.
1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy
1806 Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope
1808 Louis Napoleon signs first Dutch aviation law
1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC)
1812 British forces under Duke of Wellington take Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain.
1839 Aden conquered by British East India Company
1840 Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (US claim)
1840 LT Charles Wilkes, USN is first American to discover Antarctic coast
1853 Napoleon III marries Eugénie de Montijo
1853 Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" premieres, in Rome
1861 Georgia becomes 5th state to secede
1861 Georgia joins the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War.
1861 Georgia seceded from the Union.
1861 MS troops take Fort Massachusetts an Ship Island
1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads)
1863 General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland
1865 NV Suriname Bank established
1865 Union occupies Fort Anderson NC
1871 The first Negro lodge of US Masons approved, New Jersey
1885 Battle at Abu Klea Sudan 800-1000 killed
1886 Aurora Ski Club, first in US, founded in Minnesota
1899 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms
1900 Bubonic plague spreads from Adelaide to Sydney (103 were to die).
1903 New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced
1903 The first regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US & England
1907 Variety magazine publishes film reviews for the first time.
1910 Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
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