[1]Tomorrow:
January 19
639: Dagobert I d., King of Austrasia, Soissons, Burgundy, and
Neustria.
1736: Darien, John McIntosh Mohr founds New Inverness ([2]Darien),
Georgia. [3]On the 19th of January, after traveling down the inland
waterway by boat, the Highlanders landed at Barnwell's Bluff on the
site of Fort King George. There the Scots established the settlement
they called Darien, in memory of the ill-fated expedition made by
their countrymen to the Isthmus of Darien in Panama in 1697. There
were 177 people in this hardy band of Scots, including women and
children, and they were led by John McIntosh Mohr and Hugh Mackay.
1736: Presbyterians in Georgia,
[4]Rev. John McLeod of the Isle of Skye is the first Presb. minister
in Ga., at Darien.
1942: Japan invades Burma,
References
1. http://www.quarterman.org/q/timeline.html
2. http://www.quarterman.org/sinclair/darien.html
3. http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html
4. http://www.mcintoshcounty.com/history.html
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