Page 2: Historical Events In January - 19

1737  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin) on this day in history.   

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

1746  Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling [OS= Jan 8] on this day in history.   

1747  On this day in history johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies   

1749  On this day in history 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  On January - 19 second Fleet sails from England with 1,006 convicts aboard for new settlement at Sydney Cove.   

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

1793  On January - 19 french King Louis XVI sentenced to death   

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

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

1795  On January - 19 maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74   

1798  On this day in history auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism)   

1802  On January - 19 [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831)   

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

1806  Britain occupies the Cape of Good Hope on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

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

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

1810  On January - 19 overnight temp at Portsmouth NH drops 50°F (10°C)   

1812  British forces under Duke of Wellington take Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1813  On this day in history henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)   

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

1820  On this day in history john Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888   

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  Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres on this day in history.   

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

1200  Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto was born on January - 19.   

1544  On January - 19 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 this day in history.   

1676  On this day in history birth of john Weldon, composer   

1679  On this day in history birth of girolamo Chiti, composer   

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

0639  On this day in history dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies   

1479  Johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1526  Death of Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501) on January - 19.   

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 January - 19.   

1576  Hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

1625  Erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32 on this day in history.