January 19

January 19, 1787

Mary Aikenhead, founder of the Irish Sisters of Charity and St. Vincent’s Hospital Dublin, born

January 19, 1739

Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden, born

January 19, 1736

James Watt, Scottish steam engine inventor, born

January 19, 1643

Battle of Braddock Downs, Cromwellian army defeated by Cornish Royalists

January 19, 825

Iona raided for second time by Norsemen