On this day: 19 April
Events, births and deaths on 19 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Patricio Aylwin
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1054 · Deaths · Leo IX
- 1012 · Deaths · Ælfheah of Canterbury
- 1044 · Deaths · Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine
Events · 24
- 531(Julian date)Battle of Callinicum — 531 battle
- 1506Lisbon Massacre — antisemitic massacre on April 19, 1506 in Lisbon, Portugal
- 1529(Julian date)
- 1572(Julian date)Treaty of Blois — 1572 treaty between England and France
- 1773Partition Sejm — Puppet Polish legislature created to legally enable the country's partition
- 1775American Revolutionary War — 1775–1783 war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, which won independence as the United States of America
- 1775Battles of Lexington and Concord — first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
- 1775Siege of Boston — 1775 the Continental Army's siege of British-held Boston during the beginning of the American Revolutionary War
- 1809Battle of Raszyn — 1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1809Battle of Teugen-Hausen — 1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
- 1810Supreme Junta — organization
- 1839Treaty of London — treaty signed on 19 April 1839
- 1861Baltimore riot of 1861 — 1861 civil riot against Union troops during the American Civil War
- 1925Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo — Chilean football club based in Macul, Santiago
- 1936The Bloody Day in Jaffa — violent anti-Jewish riots perpetrated by Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
- 1943Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II
- 1960April Revolution — popular uprising in South Korea in April 1960 by labor and student groups, precipitated by the killing of a high school student by a tear-gas shell in March; led to the resignation of the president S. Rhee and the transition to the Second Republic
- 1971Sierra Leone — sovereign state in West Africa
- 1973Socialist Party — centre-left political party in Portugal
- 19761976 Brownwood tornado — 1976 F5 tornado in Texas
- 1989USS Iowa turret explosion — 1989 battleship explosion
- 1995Oklahoma City bombing — 1995 terrorist attack in the United States
- 2000Air Philippines Flight 541 — aircraft accident in the Philippines
- 2011Apink — South Korean girl group
Births · 60
- 1633Willem Drost — Dutch painter (1633–1659)
- 1658Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine — German nobleman (1658–1716)
- 1686(Julian date)Vasily Tatishchev — Russian historian (1686-1750)
- 1721Roger Sherman — early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721–1793)
- 1793Ferdinand I of Austria — Austrian emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1793-1875)
- 1832José Echegaray — Spanish playwright (1832-1916)
- 1835Julius Krohn — Finnish folk poetry researcher, professor, poet, hymn writer, translator and journalist (1835–1888)
- 1872Alice Salomon — German social reformer (1872–1948)
- 1882Getúlio Vargas — President of Brazil (1930–1945; 1951–1954)
- 1883Richard von Mises — Austrian physicist and mathematician (1883-1953)
- 1889Otto Georg Thierack — German politician (1889-1946)
- 1892Germaine Tailleferre — French composer (1892-1983)
- 1897Jiroemon Kimura — Japanese supercentenarian, verified longest–lived man in history (1897–2013)
- 1898Constance Talmadge — American actress (1898–1973)
- 1899George O'Brien — American actor (1899–1985)
- 1903Eliot Ness — American Prohibition agent (1903-1957)
- 1912Glenn Theodore Seaborg — American chemist (1912–1999)
- 1913Ken Carpenter — athletics competitor (1913–1984)
- 1917Sven Hassel — Danish writer (1917–2012)
- 1920Julien Ries — Belgian Roman Catholic priest, cardinal, and historian (1920–2013)
- 1922Erich Hartmann — German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1993)
- 1925Hugh O'Brian — American actor and United States Marine (1925–2016)
- 1928Alexis Korner — British blues musician and radio broadcaster (1928–1984)
- 1928Azlan Shah I of Perak — Sultan of Perak (1928-2014)
- 1931Fred Brooks — American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering
Deaths · 60
- 843(Julian date)Judith of Bavaria — Carolingian empress and queen of the Franks
- 1012(Julian date)Ælfheah of Canterbury — Archbishop of Canterbury and saint (c.953-1012)
- 1044Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 to 1044
- 1054(Julian date)Leo IX — Head of the Catholic Church from 1049 to 1054
- 1390(Julian date)Robert II of Scotland — King of Scots from 1371 to his death as the first monarch of the House of Stewart
- 1560(Julian date)Philipp Melanchthon — German reformer (1497-1560)
- 1567(Julian date)Michael Stifel — German mathematician
- 1578(Julian date)Uesugi Kenshin — Japanese daimyo
- 1588Paolo Veronese — Italian painter of the Renaissance (1528–1588)
- 1604Kuroda Yoshitaka — Japanese daimyo (1546 – 1604)
- 1608Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset — English politician and poet (1536-1608)
- 1623Uesugi Kagekatsu — daimyo during the Sengoku and Edo periods
- 1629Sigismondo d' India — Italian composer
- 1689Christina of Sweden — Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)
- 1739Nicholas Saunderson — English mathematician (1682–1739)
- 1768Canaletto — Italian painter of landscapes (1697–1768)
- 1791Richard Price — British philosopher, preacher and mathematician (1723–1791)
- 1813Benjamin Rush — American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
- 1824Lord Byron — English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
- 1831Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger — German astronomer (1765-1831)
- 1854Robert Jameson — British scientist; (1774-1854)
- 1881Benjamin Disraeli — British statesman (1804–1881)
- 1882Charles Darwin — English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
- 1906
- 1906Spencer Gore — British tennis player (1850–1906)
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