Page 2: Historical Events In January - 19

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

1746  On January - 19 bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling   

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8] on January - 19.   

1747  On January - 19 johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies   

1749  Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian on this day in history.   

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 January - 19.   

1790  On January - 19 per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna)   

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

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

1795  Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy on this day in history.   

1795  Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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 January - 19 britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope   

1806  Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope on January - 19.   

1806  On January - 19 vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer   

1807  On January - 19 the birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general   

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

1808  On January - 19 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 January - 19 edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum)   

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

1810  Overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C) on this day in history.   

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

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

1816  On this day in history henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892   

1820  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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0399  Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) was born on January - 19.   

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

1544  Francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60) was born on January - 19.   

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

1639  Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian was born on this day in history.   

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

1679  Girolamo Chiti, composer was born on January - 19.   

1686  Hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist was born on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81   

1591  Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 on this day in history.   

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