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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Kucha's Conquest: Tang Dynasty's Power on Silk Road (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)

7 min • 19 januari 2024

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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