19 April in history

5 events that happened on 19 April, from 1529 to 1995.

  1. 1529 CE 497 years ago

    Lutheran princes protest at the Diet of Speyer

    Six princes and fourteen imperial cities formally protested against the Diet's move to curb the Reformation. Their Protestation gave the movement the name 'Protestant'.

  2. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1775 CE 251 years ago

    Shots at Lexington and Concord begin the American Revolution

    Militiamen clashed with British regulars at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, and harried them all the way back to Boston. The skirmishes began the War of Independence.

    Boston

  3. 1897 CE 129 years ago

    First Boston Marathon is run

    Fifteen runners set out on the first Boston race, inspired by the marathon at the 1896 Athens Olympics. It is now the world's oldest annual marathon.

    AthensBoston

  4. 1943 CE 83 years ago

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

    Jewish fighters resisted German troops sent to deport the ghetto's remaining inhabitants to Treblinka. They held out for nearly a month in the largest Jewish revolt of the war.

    Warsaw

  5. 1995 CE 31 years ago

    Truck bomb kills 168 in Oklahoma City

    Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 children. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history.

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