Historical Events In January - 19

1737  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin) on this day in history.   

1746  On January - 19 bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling   

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8] on this day in history.   

1747  Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies on January - 19.   

1749  On January - 19 isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian   

1760  On January - 19 melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer   

1770  On January - 19 battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)   

1790  On January - 19 second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove.   

1790  Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) on January - 19.   

1793  French King Louis XVI sentenced to death on January - 19.   

1793  King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention on January - 19.   

1795  Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy on this day in history.   

1795  Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74 on January - 19.   

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  Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope on January - 19.   

1806  Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope on this day in history.   

1806  On January - 19 vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer   

1807  On January - 19 the birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general   

1808  On this day in history louis Napoleon signs first Dutch aviation law   

1808  Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law on this day in history.   

1809  On this day in history the birth of Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet   

1809  Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) on this day in history.   

1810  Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC) on January - 19.   

1810  Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C) on this day in history.   

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 January - 19.   

1813  Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine) on January - 19.   

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 this day in history.   

1825  Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans on January - 19.   

1827  Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) on January - 19.   

1829  Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres on January - 19.   

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0399  On January - 19 birth of pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)   

1200  Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto was born on January - 19.   

1544  Francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60) was born on January - 19.   

1613  Jacques Huyn, composer was born on this day in history.   

1639  On this day in history birth of noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian   

1676  John Weldon, composer was born on this day in history.   

1679  On this day in history birth of girolamo Chiti, composer   

1686  Hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist was born on January - 19.   

0639  On this day in history dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies   

1479  Johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1526  Death of Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501) on January - 19.   

1547  Death of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 on January - 19.   

1549  Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies on this day in history.   

1576  On January - 19 hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81   

1591  Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 on January - 19.   

1625  On January - 19 erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32