Historical Events In January - 19

1737  On this day in history jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin)   

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling on this day in history.   

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

1760  On January - 19 melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer   

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

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

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

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

1793  On January - 19 king Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention   

1795  On January - 19 democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy   

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 this day in history.   

1805  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer, dies at 43   

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

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

1806  Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer on January - 19.   

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

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

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

1809  On January - 19 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  On January - 19 overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50ºF (10ºC)   

1810  Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C) on January - 19.   

1812  British forces under Duke of Wellington take Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain on January - 19.   

1812  On this day in history 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) on this day in history.   

1816  Henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 on January - 19.   

1820  John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 on January - 19.   

1825  Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans on this day in history.   

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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0399  Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) was born on this day in history.   

1200  On this day in history birth of dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto   

1544  On January - 19 birth of francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60)   

1613  On January - 19 birth of jacques Huyn, composer   

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

1676  John Weldon, composer was born on January - 19.   

1679  Girolamo Chiti, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1526  On this day in history death of isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)   

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

1591  On January - 19 edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60   

1625  On this day in history erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32