What is April 19?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[69]] &ndash; [[Vitellius]] is accepted as Roman Emperor. * [[531]] &ndash; [[Battle of Callinicum]]: A [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] [[army]] under [[Belisarius]] is defeated by the [[Persia]]ns at Ar–Raqaah, [[Syria]]. * [[1529]] &ndash; Protestant [[Reformation]]: Second Diet of Speyer bans [[Lutheranism]]. * [[1587]] &ndash; English seafarer [[Francis Drake]] attacks a Spanish [[fleet]] in [[Cadiz]] harbor. * [[1689]] &ndash; [[Amalienborg]] castle in [[Denmark]] is destroyed by [[fire]]. * [[1770]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] sights the East coast of [[Australia]]. * [[1770]] &ndash; [[Marie Antoinette]] marries the future King [[Louis XVI of France]]. * [[1775]] &ndash; The [[American Revolutionary War]] begins at [[Lexington]], [[Massachusetts]]. * [[1782]] &ndash; [[John Adams]] secures the [[Netherlands|Dutch Republic]]'s recognition of the [[United States]] as an independent state. * [[1809]] &ndash; An [[Austria]]n corps is defeated by the forces of the [[Duchy of Warsaw]] in the [[Battle of Raszyn]]. * [[1810]] &ndash; [[Venezuela]] achieves home rule: [[Vicente Emparan]], Governor of the Captaincy General, is removed by the people of [[Caracas]] and a [[junta]] is installed. * [[1839]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of London]] creates [[Belgium]] fully as a kingdom, also separating [[Luxembourg]] from [[Belgium]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: Baltimore riot of 1861 – A Pro–[[Secession]] mob in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], attacks [[United States Army]] troops marching through the city. * [[1865]] &ndash; The [[funeral]] of [[Abraham Lincoln]] takes place in the East Room of the [[White House]] in [[Washington, DC]]. * [[1882]] &ndash; [[Charles Darwin]] dies aged 73. * [[1892]] &ndash; [[Charles Duryea]] claims to have driven the first [[automobile]] across the [[United States]]. * [[1897]] &ndash; The first [[Boston Marathon]] takes place. * [[1897]] &ndash; [[Jiroemon Kimura]], the oldest man ever, is born in [[Japan]]. === 1901 &ndash; 200