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.

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