What happend on 19th October

18.10
20.10
1914

The First Battle of Ypres begins.

1912

Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

1873

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

1864

Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.

1864

Battle of Cedar Creek

1822

In Parnaíba city; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva, Domingos Dias declares the Independence of State of Piauí.

1813

The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

1812

Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.

1781

Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.

1512

Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).