Historical Events In January - 19
Sunday, 28 May 2023
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 Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8] on January - 19.
1747 Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies on January - 19.
1749 On this day in history isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian
1760 On this day in history melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
1770 Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) on this day in history.
1790 On this day in history second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove.
1790 On January - 19 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 January - 19.
1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy on January - 19.
1795 Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74 on January - 19.
1798 On this day in history auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism)
1802 [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831) on January - 19.
1805 On this day in history johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43
1806 Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope on this day in history.
1806 Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope on January - 19.
1806 On January - 19 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 this day in history 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 50�F (10�C) on this day in history.
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 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 this day in history henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)
1816 Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on January - 19.
1820 On January - 19 john Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
1825 Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans on January - 19.
1827 Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) on this day in history.
1829 On this day in history johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres
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