What is June 19?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1950 === * [[936]] &ndash; [[Louis IV of France]] is crowned as the West Frankish King in the [[city]] of [[Laon]]. * [[1179]] &ndash; [[Battle of Kalskinnet]] in takes place outside Nidaros (present-day [[Trondheim]]). [[Earl Erling Skakke]] is killed, as the battle changes the progress of the [[civil war]]s. * [[1269]] &ndash; [[Louis IX of France]] orders that all [[Judaism|Jews]] in public in [[France]] without their [[yellow]] badge should be fined 10 [[livre]]s of [[silver]]. * [[1306]] &ndash; The [[Earl]] of [[Pembroke]]'s army defeats [[Robert I of Scotland|Robert the Bruce]]'s Scottish army at the [[Battle of Methven]]. * [[1586]] &ndash; English colonists leave [[Roanoke Island]], after failing to establish [[England]]'s first permanent settlement in [[North America]]. * [[1770]] &ndash; [[Emmanuel Swedenborg]] reports the completion of the [[Second Coming of Christ]] is his work ''True Christian Religion''. * [[1815]] &ndash; A day after the [[Battle of Waterloo]], the [[Battle]] of [[Wavre]] is fought, as the last battle of the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. * [[1816]] &ndash; [[Battle of Seven Oaks]] between the [[Northwest Company]] and the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] near [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], [[Canada]]. * [[1821]] &ndash; The Coronation of King [[George IV of the United Kingdom]] takes place in [[London]]. The expensive (costs a lot of [[money]]) coronation banquet is the last-to-date at the crowning of a British [[monarch]]. * [[1846]] &ndash; The first officially recorded, organized [[baseball]] game is played under [[Alexander Cartwright]]'s rules in [[Hoboken, New Jersey|Hoboken]], [[New Jersey]]. * [[1850]] &ndash; [[Princess Louise of the Netherlands]] marries the future King [[Charles XIII of Sweden]]. * [[1862]] &ndash; [[US Congress]] prohibits [[Slavery]] in [[US]] territories. * [[1865]] &ndash; Slaves in [[Galveston]], [[Texas]], are informed of their freedom, over two years after the [[Emancipation Proclamation]]. [[Texas]] and thirteen other U