Historical Events In January - 19

1737  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin) on January - 19.  

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 this day in history.  

1749  Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian on January - 19.  

1760  Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer on January - 19.  

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

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

1790  Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) on this day in history.  

1793  French King Louis XVI sentenced to death on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74  

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

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  Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope on January - 19.  

1806  Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer on this day in history.  

1807  On this day in history the birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general  

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

1808  On this day in history louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law  

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

1810  On this day in history 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 January - 19.  

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

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

1820  On January - 19 john Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888  

1825  On this day in history ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans  

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  Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) was born on January - 19.  

1200  On January - 19 birth of dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto  

1544  On this day in history birth of francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60)  

1613  On this day in history birth of jacques Huyn, composer  

1639  Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian was born on January - 19.  

1676  On January - 19 birth of john Weldon, composer  

1679  On January - 19 birth of girolamo Chiti, composer  

1686  On January - 19 birth of hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist  

0639  Dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies on this day in history.  

1479  On this day in history 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 January - 19 death of henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29  

1549  Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies on January - 19.  

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

1591  On this day in history edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60  

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