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The following events took place on January 19. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 57 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 379

  Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
• 639

  Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned.
• 649

  Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
• 1419

  Hundred Years’ War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
• 1511

  Mirandola surrenders to the French.
• 1520

  Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
• 1607

  San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
• 1661

  Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London.
• 1764

  John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 1788

  The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• 1795

  The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
• 1806

  The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 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.
• 1817

  An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• 1829

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.
• 1839

  The British East India Company captures Aden.
• 1840

  Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
• 1853

  Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.
• 1862

  American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
• 1871

  Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day.
• 1883

  The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
• 1893

  Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
• 1899

  Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
• 1915

  Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
• 1915

  World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
• 1917

  Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
• 1920

  The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
• 1935

  Coopers Inc. sells the world’s first briefs.
• 1937

  Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

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