Today on Celtic History on

January 19th

Fri 19 Jan 1787

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

Mon 19 Jan 1739

Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden, born

Thu 19 Jan 1736

James Watt, Scottish steam engine inventor, born

Mon 19 Jan 1643

Battle of Braddock Downs, Cromwellian army defeated by Cornish Royalists

Sun 19 Jan 0825

Iona raided for second time by Norsemen