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The following events took place on December 19. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 39 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 211

  Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives, the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna.
• 1154

  Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1490

  Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
• 1562

  The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1606

  The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
• 1675

  The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip’s War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
• 1776

  Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled “The American Crisis”.
• 1777

  American Revolutionary War: George Washington’s Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
• 1796

  French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
• 1828

  Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
• 1900

  Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
• 1907

  Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
• 1912

  William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
• 1916

  World War I: Battle of Verdun: On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
• 1920

  King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
• 1924

  The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
• 1927

  Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan are executed by the British Empire.
• 1932

  BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
• 1941

  World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army.
• 1941

  World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
• 1946

  Start of the First Indochina War.
• 1956

  Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
• 1961

  India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
• 1964

  The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyễn Khánh dissolve the High National Council and arrest some of the members.
• 1967

  Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
• 1972

  Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans (astronaut) and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
• 1974

  Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1975

  John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1981

  Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
• 1983

  The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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