This day in History - June 19

403 Historic Events for June 19
1708 Birth Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
1717 Birth Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1730 Death Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1741 Birth Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
1747 Death Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
1747 Death Alessandro Marcello, composer, dies at 77
1749 Birth Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention)
1754 Event Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies and Iroquois indians
1759 Death Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer, dies at 31
1762 Death Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer, dies at 60
1764 Birth Jos‚ Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
1764 Birth John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1766 Birth Edmund Weber, composer
1770 Event General Church of New Jerusalem established
1778 Event Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1782 Birth John Bray, composer
1782 Birth Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1783 Birth Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1787 Death John Brown, (British?) theologist, dies
1790 Birth John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1792 Birth Gustav Schwab, writer
1794 Death Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 62
1810 Birth Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
1811 Death Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 70
1811 Birth Henry Prince, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892