WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. DECEMBER
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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. (19. December 211)

Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. (19. December 324)

Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. (19. December 1154)

Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. (19. December 1490)

The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion. (19. December 1562)

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. (19. December 1606)

Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis". (19. December 1776)

American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. (19. December 1777)

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. (19. December 1796)

Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. (19. December 1828)

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. (19. December 1900)

239 coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. (19. December 1907)

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. (19. December 1912)

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. (19. December 1916)

King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite. (19. December 1920)

The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England, United Kingdom. (19. December 1924)

Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire. (19. December 1927)

BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service. (19. December 1932)

World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army. (19. December 1941)

World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour. (19. December 1941)