Page 2: 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  On this day in history bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8]   

1747  Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies on January - 19.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1793  On this day in history french King Louis XVI sentenced to death   

1793  On this day in history king Louis XVI sentenced to death by the French Convention   

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

1795  On this day in history maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74   

1798  Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism) on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1806  On January - 19 britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope   

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

1806  On this day in history 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  On January - 19 louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law   

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

1812  On January - 19 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 January - 19.   

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

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

1825  On January - 19 ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans   

1827  Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) on January - 19.   

1829  On this day in history johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres   

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0399  On January - 19 birth of pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)   

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

1676  John Weldon, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 January - 19.   

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  Death of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 on January - 19.   

1549  Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies on this day in history.   

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