What is January 19?
{{calendar}} {{day}} ==Events== === Up to 1900 === * [[1419]] &ndash; [[Hundred Years' War]]: [[Rouen]] surrenders to [[Henry V of England]] in [[England]]'s reconquest of [[Normandy]]. * [[1520]] &ndash; [[Sten Sture the Younger]], regent of [[Sweden]], is injured in the [[Battle of Bogesund]], leading to his death on [[February 3]]. * [[1607]] &ndash; The San Agustin [[Church]] in [[Manila]] is completed. It is the oldest church in the [[Philippines]] still standing. * [[1788]] &ndash; A second group of the First Fleet of [[convict]]s from [[Great Britain]] arrives at Botany Bay, present–day [[Sydney]], [[Australia]]. * [[1795]] &ndash; The Batavian [[Republic]] is founded in the [[Netherlands]]. * [[1806]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom]] occupies the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. * [[1812]] &ndash; [[Peninsular War]]: After a ten–day [[siege]], [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]] orders British [[soldier]]s of the Light and Third Divisions to storm [[Ciudad Rodrigo]]. * [[1817]] &ndash; An [[army]] led by [[Jose de San Martin]] crosses the [[Andes]] from [[Argentina]] to [[Chile]], having already liberated Argentina. * [[1829]] &ndash; [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]'s ''[[Faust Part 1]]'' is performed for the first time. * [[1839]] &ndash; The [[British East India Company]] captures [[Aden]], [[Yemen]]. * [[1840]] &ndash; Captain [[Charles Wilkes]] circumnavigates [[Antarctica]]. * [[1853]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s [[opera]] ''[[Il Trovatore]]'' is performed for the first time, in [[Rome]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[Confederate States of America]]: [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]] leaves the [[United States|Union]], becoming the 5th state to do so. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Mill Springs]], the first important [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] defeat of the war. * [[1871]] &ndash; [[Franco-Prussian War]]: [[Prussia]] wins in the [[Battle of Saint Quentin]]. * [[1883]] &ndash; German [[passenger]] steamer ''Cimbria'' sinks after a collision off the [[island]] of [[Borkum