WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. SEPTEMBER
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Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I. (19. September 335)

Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire. (19. September 634)

Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II. (19. September 1356)

Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion. (19. September 1676)

Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials. (19. September 1692)

American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga. (19. September 1777)

The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget. (19. September 1778)

George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public. (19. September 1796)

French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen. (19. September 1799)

Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. (19. September 1846)

American Civil War: Battle of Iuka – Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price. (19. September 1862)

American Civil War: Battle of Chickamauga. (19. September 1863)

Spanish revolution: La Gloriosa. (19. September 1868)

Franco-Prussian War: the Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Prussian victory. (19. September 1870)

Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican. (19. September 1870)

The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time. (19. September 1879)

U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. (19. September 1881)

Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote. (19. September 1893)

Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.. (19. September 1934)

World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged. (19. September 1939)

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