January 19

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[edit] 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, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
• 1795 - Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands. End of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
• 1806 - The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope.
• 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 premieres.
• 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.
• 1918 - Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
• 1949 - Cuba recognises Israel.
• 1983 - Germany's Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

[edit] Births

• 399 - Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453)
• 1544 - King Francis II of France (d. 1560)
• 1736 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1819)
• 1739 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
• 1757 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
• 1807 - Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
• 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)

[edit] Deaths

• 639 - Dagobert I, King of the Franks
• 1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501)
• 1576 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger (b. 1494)
• 1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
• 1940 - William Edgar Borah, American politician (b. 1865)
• 2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)