On this day: 19 March

Years ago today

Events · 19

• 1205(Julian date)
  Battle of Adramyttium — 1205 battle between the Latin Empire and the Empire of Nicaea
• 1279
  Battle of Yamen — 1279 battle
• 1563(Julian date)
  Edict of Amboise — 1563 armistice which ended the first French War of Religion
• 1865
  Battle of Bentonville — 1865 battle of the American Civil War
• 1918
  Standard Time Act of 1918 — United States time zone and Daylight Savings Time law
• 1921
  Crossbarry Ambush — 1921 battle of the Irish War of Independence
• 1928
  The Amos 'n Andy Show — television and radio series
• 1932
  Sydney Harbour Bridge — bridge crossing Sydney Harbour in Australia
• 1941
  China Democratic League — minor political party in China
• 1944
  German invasion of Hungary — 1944 military operation
• 1964
  March of the Family with God for Liberty — 1964 political march in Brazil
• 1979
  C-SPAN — American television channel
• 1998
  1998 Ariana Afghan Airlines crash — Aviation accident
• 2004
  Konginkangas bus disaster — major traffic accident in Äänekoski, Finland, on 19 March 2004
• 2011
  Opération Harmattan — 2011 military operation
• 2011
  Second Battle of Benghazi — 2011 battle
• 2016
  Flydubai Flight 981 — 2016 air crash in Rostov-on-Don, Russia
• 2016
  2016 March Istanbul bombing — suicide bombing on 19 March 2016
• 2023
  acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS — 2023 banking merger in Switzerland

Births · 60

• 1206(Julian date)
  Güyük Khan — Third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
• 1488(Julian date)
  Johannes Magnus — Swedish historian and Catholic archbishop
• 1534(Julian date)
  Joseph of Anchieta — Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)
• 1542(Julian date)
  Jan Zamoyski — Polish magnate, statesman and military commander (1542–1605)
• 1601
  Alonso Cano — Spanish painter, architect and sculptor (1601-1667)
• 1604
  John IV of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1640 to 1656 (lived 1604-1656)
• 1721
  Tobias Smollett — Scottish writer and surgeon (1721–1771)
• 1809
  Fredrik Pacius — German composer resided in Finland (1809-1891)
• 1813
  David Livingstone — Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)
• 1821
  Richard Francis Burton — British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
• 1844
  Minna Canth — Finnish writer, editor (1844-1897)
• 1848
  Wyatt Earp — American lawman (1848–1929)
• 1849
  Alfred von Tirpitz — German Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office (1849-1930)
• 1858
  Kang Youwei — Chinese politician and scholar (1858-1927)
• 1860
  William Jennings Bryan — American politician (1860–1925)
• 1873
  Max Reger — German composer, pianist and conductor (1873-1916)
• 1875
  Zhang Zuolin — Chinese warlord and politician (1875-1928)
• 1883
  Norman Haworth — British chemist (1883-1950)
• 1883
  Joseph Stilwell — United States Army general (1883–1946)
• 1888
  Josef Albers — German-American designer, painter, educator and typographer (1888–1976)
• 1888
  Léon Scieur — Belgian cyclist (1888–1969)
• 1891
  Earl Warren — Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1953 to 1969 (1891–1974)
• 1900
  Frédéric Joliot-Curie — French scientist (1900-1958)
• 1905
  Albert Speer — German Nazi architect, Government Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany and convicted Nazi War Criminal (1905–1981)
• 1906
  Adolf Eichmann — German-Austrian SS officer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust (1906–1962)

Deaths · 60

• 235(Julian date)
  Severus Alexander — Roman Emperor (208-235)
• 245(Julian date)
  Lu Xun — Eastern Wu general and politician (183-245)
• 1238(Julian date)
  Henry I the Bearded — High Duke of Poland
• 1279(Julian date)
  Emperor Bing of Song — emperor of the Song Dynasty
• 1286
  Alexander III of Scotland — King of Scots 1249–1286
• 1330(Julian date)
  Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent — English Earl
• 1372(Julian date)
  John II, Marquess of Montferrat — Marquess of Montferrat
• 1539
  Lord Edmund Howard — 16th-century English nobleman
• 1568
  Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell — English noblewoman
• 1581
  Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg — German duke
• 1610
  Hasegawa Tōhaku — Japanese painter (1539-1610)
• 1637
  Péter Pázmány — Hungarian Catholic cardinal, theologian and statesman (1570–1637)
• 1649
  Gerardus Vossius — Dutch Protestant theologian, linguist, historian and humanist (1577-1649)
• 1683(Julian date)
  Thomas Killigrew — English dramatist and theatre manager (1612–1683)
• 1687
  René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle — 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
• 1721
  Clement XI — pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
• 1790
  Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Paşa — Ottoman admiral and Grand Vizier
• 1816
  Philip Mazzei — American diplomat (1730-1816)
• 1871
  Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger — Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (1795–1871)
• 1884
  Elias Lönnrot — Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802–1884)
• 1897
  Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie — Irish-born French explorer, geographer, ethnologist, linguist and astronomer (1810-1897)
• 1900
  Charles-Louis Hanon — French musician (1819-1900)
• 1900
  John Bingham — American politician (1815–1900)
• 1914
  Giuseppe Mercalli — Italian volcanologist (1850-1914)
• 1930
  Arthur Balfour — British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)