April 19 in history
Events on April 19
Notable events that happened on April 19 in past years.
- 2021
The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.
Wikipedia article: Ingenuity (helicopter) - 2011
Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
Wikipedia article: Fidel Castro - 2000
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
Wikipedia article: Air Philippines Flight 541 - 1993
The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, US, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
Wikipedia article: Waco siege - 1975
India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
Wikipedia article: India - 1971
Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
Wikipedia article: Sierra Leone - 1956
Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
Wikipedia article: Grace Kelly - 1936
The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
Wikipedia article: Jaffa riots (April 1936) - 1903
The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
Wikipedia article: Kishinev pogrom - 1810
Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
Wikipedia article: Venezuela - 1775
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, later referred to as the "shot heard round the world".
Wikipedia article: American Revolutionary War - 1713
With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.
Wikipedia article: Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor - 1572
England and France sign an alliance against Spain in the treaty of Blois.
Wikipedia article: Kingdom of England - 1042
Following the attempt of Byzantine Emperor Michael V Kalaphates to depose his wife and empress Zoe Porphyrogenita, a popular uprising in Constantinople breaks out with the intention to restore her.
- 65
The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.
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