Page 2: Historical Events In January - 19

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling   

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8].   

1747  Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies.   

1749  Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian.   

1760  Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer   

1770  Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan)   

1790  Second Fleet sails from England with 1006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove   

1790  Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)   

1793  French King Louis XVI sentenced to death   

1793  King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention   

1795  Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy.   

1795  Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74.   

1798  Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology and positivism).   

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

1805  Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43.   

1806  Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope.   

1806  Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope.   

1806  Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer.   

1807  Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general is born.   

1808  Louis Napoleon signs inaugural Dutch aviation law   

1808  Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law.   

1809  Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet is born   

1809  Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit and the Pendulum).   

1810  Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC)   

1810  Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C).   

1812  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   

1813  Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine).   

1816  Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892   

1820  John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888   

1825  Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans   

1827  Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,).   

1829  Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres   

1830  George Blake Cosby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909   

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0399  Pulcheria: Byzantine empress   

1200  Dogen kigen: Japan, zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the japanese soto   

1544  Francis ii de valois-angouleme: King of france (1559-60)   

1613  Jacques huyn: Composer   

1639  Noel alexandre: French theologian/historian   

1676  John weldon: Composer   

1679  Girolamo chiti: Composer   

1686  Hakuin ekakuborn: Japan, zen buddhist   

0639  Death of Dagobert i: King of austrasia/soissons/burgundy/neustrië,   

1479  Johan ii: King of aragon/navarra,   

1526  Death of Isabella of burgundy: Wife of christian ii of denmark (b. 1501)   

1547  Death of Henry howard: Earl of surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29   

1549  Barthout van assendelft: 1st land advocate of holland,   

1576  Hans sachs: Composer,   

1591  Death of Edmond auger: French jesuit (under henri iii),   

1625  Erhard buttner: Composer,