January 19
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 346 days remaining until the end of the year (347 in leap years).
Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs - The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
- 1871 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
- 1915 - World War I: German zeppelins bomb the cities 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 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
- 1917 - Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- 1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
- 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
- 1945 - World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
- 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
- 1999 - British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- 2006 - A Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crashes in Hungary.
Births
1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
Deaths
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