Birth in Dumfriesshire of polymath and soldier James Crichton. His precocious talents earned him the soubriquet of the \u2018Admirable Crichton\u2019. He died, aged 21, after being mortally wounded in a street brawl\u00a0in Mantua.<\/p>\n
19 August 1561<\/h3>\n
After 13 years in France, Mary, Queen of Scots<\/a> returned to Scotland, landing at Leith. Mary had made the journey by sea after Elizabeth I<\/a> had refused her permission to travel through England.<\/p>\n A pro-Royalist rising led by Sir George Booth was crushed by Major-General John Lambert at Winnington Bridge near Northwich in Cheshire. Booth tried to escape dressed as a woman but was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower.<\/p>\n After landing in Scotland from France, Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie<\/a>) raises his flag to claim the British throne and launch the final Jacobite<\/a> rebellion \u2013 and gives Highland recruits brandy to celebrate.<\/p>\n The USS Constitution captured HMS Guerriere<\/em> in a single-ship action in the north-west Atlantic. It was noted that the Constitution seemed impervious to the cannonballs of the English frigate, earning her the nickname \u2018old Ironsides\u2019.<\/p>\n Browse more On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> What events happened on 19 August in history? We round up the events, births and deaths\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27582,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/19-august-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"What events happened on 19 August in history? We round up the events, births and deaths\u2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}19 August 1659<\/h3>\n
19 August 1745<\/h3>\n
19 August 1812\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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