Kucha's Conquest: Tang Dynasty's Power on Silk Road (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History · Amalia Dupray and Montgomery Jones
January 19, 20247m 8s
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A Daily Dose of History (19 Jan 2024)
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.
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