8191 | January 19 | Event | 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. |
8192 | January 19 | Event | 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance. |
8193 | January 19 | Event | 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden. |
8194 | January 19 | Event | 1840 – Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigates Antarctica, claiming what became known as Wilkes Land for the United States. |
8195 | January 19 | Event | 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. |
8196 | January 19 | Event | 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States. |
8197 | January 19 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. |
8198 | January 19 | Event | 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. |
8199 | January 19 | Event | 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. |
8200 | January 19 | Event | 1893 – Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin. |
8201 | January 19 | Event | 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. |
8202 | January 19 | Event | 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. |
8203 | January 19 | Event | 1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns 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. |
8204 | January 19 | Event | 1917 – Silvertown explosion: Seventy-three are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. |
8205 | January 19 | Event | 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. |
8206 | January 19 | Event | 1935 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs. |
8207 | January 19 | Event | 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. |
8208 | January 19 | Event | 1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (Y-5) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto. |
8209 | January 19 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma. |
8210 | January 19 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. |
8211 | January 19 | Event | 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. |
8212 | January 19 | Event | 1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel. |
8213 | January 19 | Event | 1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. |
8214 | January 19 | Event | 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty |
8215 | January 19 | Event | 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest. |
8216 | January 19 | Event | 1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) |
8217 | January 19 | Event | 1975 – An earthquake strikes Himachal Pradesh, India |
8218 | January 19 | Event | 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). |
8219 | January 19 | Event | 1977 – Snow falls in Miami. This is the only time in the history of the city that snow has fallen. It also fell in The Bahamas. |
8220 | January 19 | Event | 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. |