Merriam-Webster dictionary defines history as a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events. It’s a chronological record of significant events often including an explanation of their causes. The earliest known use of the word history was in the 14th century.
This website utilizes entries from Wikipedia to extract historical events from 3761 BC up to the present. There are currently 105,060 records in our database. The present day Gregorian calendar was adopted to show dates of interest.
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What Happened On June 19
- 1269 –King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
- 1306 –The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- 1586 –English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- 1850 –Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
- 1865 –Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- 1875 –The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
- 1964 –The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
- 1970 –The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
- 1985 –Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
- 1987 –Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
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