A Daily Dose of History (19 Jan 2025)

Today's historical events:

• 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.
• Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy.
• The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope.
• San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.
• Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) was granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia.
• John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
• 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.
• The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay.
• The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic.
• An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance.

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