The freedman Milichus betrays Piso’s plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 2065Calendar year
Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 0531Battle of the Iberian War (531 AD)
Election of Pope John XIX following the death of his brother Pope Benedict VIII.📜 POLITICS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 1024Head of the Catholic Church from 1024 to 1032
Following the attempt of Byzantine Emperor Michael V Kalaphates to depose his wife and empress Zoe Porphyrogenita📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 1042
The Lisbon Massacre begins📜 CITIES🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 15061506 antisemitic riot in the Kingdom of Portugal
Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 152916th-century movement in Western Christianity
The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 19 April 1539Agreement between Protestants and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
England and France sign an alliance against Spain in the treaty of Blois.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 19 April 1572Sovereign state in Europe before 1707
The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 1677Battle of the Franco-Dutch War
With no living male heirs📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 SPAIN🗓️ 19 April 1713Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740
Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 19 April 1770Queen of France from 1774 to 1792
Captain James Cook📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 19 April 1770British explorer and naval officer (1728–1779)
American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 19 April 17751775–76 American Revolutionary War campaign
American Revolutionary War: The war begins during the Battles of Lexington and Concord with a victory of American minutemen and other militia over British forces📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 19 April 17751775–1783 armed conflict in North America
John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES🗓️ 19 April 1782Founding Father, U.S. president from 1797 to 1801
An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 FRANCE🗓️ 19 April 1809Polish state (1807–1815)
French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary “Note on the Theory of Diffraction” (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL🗓️ 19 April 1818French optical physicist (1788–1827)
The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM🗓️ 19 April 1839Treaty over Belgium and Luxembourg