Portal:China/Anniversaries/January/January 19

Events

• 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
• 1974 – China gain control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of the People's Republic of China and Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).

Deaths

• 1929 – Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar (pictured) (b. 1873)