Historical Events In January - 19
Thursday, 18 April 2024
1737 On this day in history jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin)
1746 On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8] on this day in history.
1747 On this day in history johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies
1749 Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian on January - 19.
1760 On this day in history melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) on January - 19.
1790 Second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove on this day in history.
1790 Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) on this day in history.
1793 On this day in history french King Louis XVI sentenced to death
1793 King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention on this day in history.
1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy on this day in history.
1795 Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.
1798 Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism) on January - 19.
1802 On this day in history [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831)
1805 Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43 on January - 19.
1806 On January - 19 britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope
1806 On January - 19 britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1806 Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer on January - 19.
1807 On January - 19 the birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general
1808 On January - 19 louis Napoleon signs first Dutch aviation law
1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law on this day in history.
1809 On January - 19 the birth of Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet
1809 On this day in history edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum)
1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC) on January - 19.
1810 On January - 19 overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C)
1812 On this day in history british forces under Duke of Wellington take Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain.
1812 Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo on this day in history.
1813 On January - 19 henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)
1816 On January - 19 henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1820 John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 on January - 19.
1825 On January - 19 ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans
1827 Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) on this day in history.
1829 Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres on this day in history.
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