About May 19
May 19, 2025 is the 139th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 226 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 274 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 19
- 1499 –Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
- 1535 –French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona’s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
- 1649 –An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
- 1749 –King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
- 1802 –Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- 1848 –Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
- 1864 –American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
- 1897 –Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison.
- 1911 –Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
- 1919 –Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
- 1921 –The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
- 1922 –The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- 1934 –Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
- 1962 –A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe’s rendition of “Happy Birthday”.
- 1971 –Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1986 –The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 1991 –Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
- 1997 –The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
- 2010 –The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
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