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On April 19, 65: The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.

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The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.

AD 65 (LXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nerva and Vestinus. The denomination AD 65 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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Born on April 19

The Rizzler 2016– American social media personality (born 2016)
Jackson Merrill 2003– American baseball player (born 2003)
Loren Gray 2002– American social media personality (born 2002)
Dalton Knecht 2001– American basketball player (born 2001)
PinkPantheress 2001– British singer-songwriter (born 2001)
Sebastian Kris 1999– New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Kelly Olynyk 1991– Canadian basketball player (born 1991)
Jackie Bradley Jr. 1990– American baseball player (born 1990)
Kim Chiu 1990– Filipino actress (born 1990)
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Simu Liu 1989– Canadian actor (born 1989)
Joe Hart 1987– English footballer (born 1987)
Maria Sharapova 1987– Russian former tennis player (born 1987)
Candace Parker 1986– American basketball player (born 1986)
Joe Mauer 1983– American baseball player (born 1983)
Samuel C. Morrison 1982– Liberian screenwriter, director, producer and journalist
Ali Wong 1982– American comedian and actress (born 1982)
Hayden Christensen 1981– Canadian actor (born 1981)
Lise Klaveness 1981– Norwegian footballer and executive

People

Died on April 19

George Ariyoshi Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986
Daniel Dennett American philosopher (1942–2024)
Moonbin South Korean singer and actor (1998–2023)
Ron Hamilton American musician (1950–2023)
Kane Tanaka Japanese supercentenarian (1903–2022)
Walter Mondale Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Jim Steinman American musical artist (1947–2021)
Ian Whitcomb English singer-songwriter (1941–2020)
Lu Chao-Hsuan Taiwanese guitarist (1929-2017)
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Patricio Aylwin President of Chile from 1990 to 1994
Raymond Carr English historian
Roy Mason British politician (1924-2015)
François Jacob French biologist
Al Neuharth American businessman (1924–2013)
Levon Helm American drummer and vocalist (1940–2012)
Elisabeth Sladen British actress (1946–2011)
J. G. Ballard English writer (1930–2009)
Jean-Pierre Cassel French actor and dancer (1932–2007)

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Every April 19 on record

  1. 65 The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.

    Calendar year

    AD 65 (LXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nerva and Vestinus. The denomination AD 65 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  2. 531 Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).

    Battle of the Iberian War (531 AD)

    The Battle of Callinicum took place on Easter Saturday, 19 April 531 AD, between an army of the Byzantine Empire under Belisarius and a Sasanian cavalry force commanded by Azarethes. After being defeated at the Battle of Dara, the Sasanians moved to invade Roman Syria in an attempt to turn the tide of the war. Belisarius' rapid response foiled the plan, and his troops pushed the Persians to the Syrian border through maneuvering before forcing a battle in which the Sasanians won a Pyrrhic victory.

  3. 1024 Election of Pope John XIX following the death of his brother Pope Benedict VIII.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 1024 to 1032

    Pope John XIX, born Roman of Tusculum, was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 1024 to his death. He belonged to the family of the powerful Counts of Tusculum, succeeding his brother, Benedict VIII. Papal relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople soured during John XIX's pontificate.

  4. 1042 Following the attempt of Byzantine Emperor Michael V Kalaphates to depose his wife and empress Zoe Porphyrogenita, a popular uprising in Constantinople breaks out with the intention to restore her.

    The foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD marks the conventional start of the Byzantine Empire, which fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors who never attained the status of sole or senior ruler, as well as of the various usurpers or rebels who claimed the imperial title.

  5. 1506 The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which about two thousand Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.

    1506 antisemitic riot in the Kingdom of Portugal

    On 19 April 1506, a crowd of churchgoers in Lisbon attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, antisemitic riot that killed between 500 and 4,000 "New Christians", the name for Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity.

  6. 1529 Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protest the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
  7. 1539 The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.
  8. 1572 England and France sign an alliance against Spain in the treaty of Blois.
  9. 1608 In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
  10. 1677 The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
  11. 1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.
  12. 1770 Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
  13. 1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
  14. 1775 American Revolutionary War: The war begins during the Battles of Lexington and Concord with a victory of American minutemen and other militia over British forces, later referred to as the "shot heard round the world".
  15. 1775 American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Siege of Boston begins with American militias blocking land access to the British-held city.
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  1. 1782 John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
  2. 1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
  3. 1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
  4. 1818 French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
  5. 1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
  6. 1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
  7. 1903 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
  8. 1925 Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David Arellano and some of his teammates who had also left the Deportes Magallanes club.
  9. 1927 Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
  10. 1936 The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
  11. 1942 World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
  12. 1943 World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
  13. 1956 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
  14. 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
  15. 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.

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