Did_You_Know on Nostr: On this day: 19/01/379 Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ...
On this day: 19/01/379
Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
On this day: 19/01/649
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.
On this day: 19/01/1419
Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
On this day: 19/01/1511
The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
On this day: 19/01/1520
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
On this day: 19/01/1607
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
On this day: 19/01/1639
Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) was granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
On this day: 19/01/1764
John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
On this day: 19/01/1764
Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
On this day: 19/01/1788
The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
On this day: 19/01/649
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.
On this day: 19/01/1419
Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
On this day: 19/01/1511
The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
On this day: 19/01/1520
Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3.
On this day: 19/01/1607
San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
On this day: 19/01/1639
Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) was granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
On this day: 19/01/1764
John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
On this day: 19/01/1764
Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
On this day: 19/01/1788
The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.