What is May 19?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[715]] &ndash; [[Pope Gregory II]] is elected. * [[1051]] &ndash; [[Henry I of France]] marries [[Anne of Kiev]]. * [[1314]] &ndash; [[Visby]], on the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[island]] of [[Gotland]], is almost completely destroyed by [[fire]]. * [[1364]] &ndash; [[Charles V of France]] and [[Jeanne de Bourbon]] are crowned French [[King]] and [[Queen]] respectively. * [[1445]] &ndash; [[John II of Castile]] defeats the Infantes of [[Aragon]] at the [[First Battle of Olmedo]]. * [[1499]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Aragon]] is married by proxy to [[Arthur Tudor]]. * [[1535]] &ndash; [[Jacques Cartier]] sets sail on his third voyage to [[North America]]. * [[1536]] &ndash; [[Anne Boleyn]] is beheaded. * [[1542]] &ndash; The [[Prome Kingdom]] falls to the [[Taungoo Dynasty]] in present–day [[Burma]]. * [[1568]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth I of England]] orders the arrest of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]]. * [[1643]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: French forces defeat [[Spain]] in the [[Battle of Rocroi]]. * [[1649]] &ndash; An Act of [[Parliament]] declares [[England]] a Commonwealth in a law passed by the Long Parliament, making [[England]] a [[republic]]. * [[1655]] &ndash; The [[Invasion of Jamaica]] begins during the [[Anglo-Spanish War]]. * [[1743]] &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre Christin]] develops the [[Centigrade]] [[temperature]] scale, similar to the [[Celsius]] scale, which was later flipped round to the same as the centigrade scale. * [[1749]] &ndash; [[George II of Great Britain]] grants a charter of [[land]] to the Ohio Company around the Forks of the [[Ohio]] [[River]]. * [[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: A [[Continental Army]] garrison surrenders in the [[Battle of the Cedars]]. * [[1780]] &ndash; [[New England]]'s Dark Day: thick [[smoke]] and heavy [[cloud]] causes darkness to fall over parts of Eastern [[Canada]] and [[New England]]. * [[1781]] &ndash; King [[Louis XVI of France]] surprisingly fires his economic advisor [[Jacques Necker]]. * [[1792]] &ndash;