Editing January 19 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] &ndash; [[San Agustin Church (Manila)|San Agustin Church in Manila]] is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the [[Philippines]].
*[[1639]] &ndash; [[Hämeenlinna]] ({{langx|sv|Tavastehus}}) is granted [[Privilege (law)|privileges]] after it separated from the [[Vanaja (Finland)|Vanaja]] parish as its own city in [[Tavastia (historical province)|Tavastia]].<ref>[https://docplayer.fi/amp/810803-Hameenlinna-tavastehus-kaupunkiarkeologinen-inventointi.html HÄMEENLINNA - TAVASTEHUS Kaupunkiarkeologinen inventointi] (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[1764]] &ndash; [[John Wilkes]] is expelled from the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|British House of Commons]] for [[seditious libel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Patterson|first=Annabel|title=Nobody's Perfect: A New Whig Interpretation of History|location=New Haven, Conn.|publisher=Yale University Press|date=2002|isbn=9780300092882|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZ8Yvic_jacC|page=42}}</ref>
*[[1764]] &ndash; [[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]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jideofor Adibe|title=Debating Nigeria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHgoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170|date=21 December 2016|publisher=Adonis & Abbey|isbn=978-1-912234-96-7|pages=170}}</ref> 
*[[1788]] &ndash; The second group of ships of the [[First Fleet]] arrive at [[Botany Bay]].
*[[1795]] &ndash; The [[Batavian Republic]] is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kolla|first=James|title=Sovereignty, International Law and the French Revolution|location=Cambridge, U.K.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2017|isbn=9781107179547 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkY3DwAAQBAJ|page=218}}</ref>
*[[1817]] &ndash; An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General [[José de San Martín]], [[Crossing of the Andes|crosses the Andes]] from [[Argentina]] to liberate [[Chile]] and then [[Peru]].
*[[1829]] &ndash; [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]'s ''[[Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy]]'' receives its premiere performance.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cooper|first=John Michael|title=Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night: The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850|location=Rochester, N.Y.|publisher=University of Rochester Press|date=2010|isbn=9781580463683|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wjf89joWfYC|page=174}}</ref>
*[[1839]] &ndash; The [[British East India Company]] captures [[Aden]].
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Il trovatore]]'' receives its premiere performance in Rome.
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] joins [[South Carolina]], [[Florida]], [[Mississippi]], and [[Alabama]] in declaring [[secession]] from the United States.
*[[1862]] &ndash; American Civil War: [[Battle of Mill Springs]]: The [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Franco-Prussian War]]: In the [[Siege of Paris (1870–71)|Siege of Paris]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] wins the [[Battle of St. Quentin (1871)|Battle of St. Quentin]]. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the [[Battle of Buzenval (1871)|Battle of Buzenval]] will end unsuccessfully the following day.
*[[1883]] &ndash; The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison]], begins service at [[Roselle, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Judith Freeman|title=The Gilded Age|location=New York|publisher=Facts on File|date=2006|isbn=081605763X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8FwZ3PXVngC|page=90}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]] is formed.