Page 2: Historical Events In January - 19

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

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  Johann Bode, "discoverer" of Bode's Law, dies on this day in history.   

1749  On January - 19 isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian   

1760  On this day in history melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer   

1770  Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) on this day in history.   

1790  On this day in history 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 January - 19.   

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  On January - 19 democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy   

1795  Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74 on January - 19.   

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

1802  On January - 19 [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 this day in history 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 January - 19 the birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general   

1808  On January - 19 louis Napoleon signs first Dutch aviation law   

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

1810  On this day in history 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  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  On January - 19 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  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 this day in history.   

1829  On January - 19 johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres   

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

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  On this day in history birth of john Weldon, composer   

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

1686  On this day in history 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 January - 19.   

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  On this day in history barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies   

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

1591  Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 on January - 19.   

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