WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. JANUARY
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Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him power over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. (19. January 379)

Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, is crowned. (19. January 639)

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. (19. January 649)

Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. (19. January 1419)

Mirandola surrenders to the French. (19. January 1511)

Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund. (19. January 1520)

San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. (19. January 1607)

Thomas Venner is hanged, drawn and quartered in London. (19. January 1661)

John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. (19. January 1764)

The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay. (19. January 1788)

The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. (19. January 1795)

The United Kingdom occupies the Cape of Good Hope. (19. January 1806)

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. (19. January 1812)

An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. (19. January 1817)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 receives its premiere performance. (19. January 1829)

The British East India Company captures Aden. (19. January 1839)

Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. (19. January 1840)

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. (19. January 1853)

American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. (19. January 1861)

American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. (19. January 1862)