Historical Events on August 19

778 battle between Charlemagne and Basques

1121 battle fought between the armies of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Great Seljuq Empire

Earthquake in west-central Syria, 1157

1378 middle ages battle

1487 battle between the Republic of Venice and Sigismund of Habsburg

1562 European battle

1648 battle in England

1691 battle in the Great Turkish War

1796 treaty between France and Spain

1801 minor naval engagement of the last year of the French Revolutionary Wars

Naval battle during the War of 1812

First battle of the Hungarian War of Independence 1848

1854 opening engagement of the First Sioux War

Battle took place on August 23, 1908 in the city of Marrakesh

North Sea naval battle between the UK and German fleets

Military action in WW1

Italian invasion of British Somaliland — part of the East African Campaign (1940–1941)

1942 landing operation in World War II

Operation Bagration — 1944 large Soviet military offensive in WW2

Earthquake in eastern Turkey

Violent anti-American rioting in front of the United States embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus on August 19, 1974

Cinema Rex fire — Massacre

Saudia Flight 163 — aviation accident

1981 air battle between Libya and the United States in the Mediterranean

1984 Austrian Grand Prix — Formula One motor car race

Riot at Parliament House, Canberra, Australia

2001 Hungarian Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 2001

Rally in Boston in 2017

2018 earthquake near the Fijian Islands

2019 battle in Burkina Faso