Page 2: Historical Events In January - 19

1737  On January - 19 jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin)   

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling on January - 19.   

1746  On January - 19 bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8]   

1747  Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies on this day in history.   

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

1760  Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer on this day in history.   

1770  Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) on January - 19.   

1790  On this day in history second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove.   

1790  On this day in history per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)   

1793  On January - 19 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  On January - 19 maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74   

1798  On January - 19 auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism)   

1802  [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831) on this day in history.   

1805  On January - 19 johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43   

1806  On this day in history britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope   

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

1806  On this day in history vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer   

1807  The birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general on January - 19.   

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

1808  Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law on January - 19.   

1809  On January - 19 the birth of Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet   

1809  Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) on January - 19.   

1810  On this day in history overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC)   

1810  On January - 19 overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C)   

1812  On January - 19 british forces under Duke of Wellington take Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain.   

1812  On January - 19 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.   

1813  On January - 19 henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)   

1816  Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on this day in history.   

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  On January - 19 carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,)   

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  On this day in history birth of francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60)   

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

1639  On January - 19 birth of noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian   

1676  On this day in history birth of john Weldon, composer   

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

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

0639  On January - 19 dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies   

1479  On January - 19 johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81   

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

1547  On this day in history death of henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29   

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

1576  Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81 on January - 19.   

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

1625  Erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32 on January - 19.