What are the important events that happened on May 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

May 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

May 19 is the 139^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 6, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 485,448 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatriacontaenneagon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,532 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

May 19 Historical Events

• 1499 –
  Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
• 1536 –
  Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
• 1749 –
  King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• 1780 –
  New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1961 –
  Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• 1991 –
  Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.

Who were born on May 19?

• 1724 –
  Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)
• 1874 –
  Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
• 1914 –
  Max Perutz, Austrian-born British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
• 1921 –
  Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002)
• 1928 –
  Gil McDougald, American baseball player (d. 2010)
• 1963 –
  Filippo Galli, Italian footballer
• 1965 –
  Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean television presenter and 1987 Miss Universe
• 1975 –
  Delma Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 –
  Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
• 1984 –
  Marcedes Lewis, American football player

Who died on May 19?

• 1319 –
  Louis d'Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276)
• 1610 –
  Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550)
• 1795 –
  James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740)
• 1821 –
  Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• 1865 –
  Sengge Rinchen, Mongol Qing Dynasty field marshal (b. 1811)
• 1898 –
  William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1935 –
  T. E. Lawrence, English soldier, known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
• 1954 –
  Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
• 1965 –
  Tu'i Malila, the world’s oldest tortoise (b. circa 1777)
• 2002 –
  John Gorton, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)