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On March 19, 1205: Latin forces under Henry of Flanders defeat a Nicaean army under Constantine Laskaris in the Battle of Adramyttion.

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Latin forces under Henry of Flanders defeat a Nicaean army under Constantine Laskaris in the Battle of Adramyttion.

The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople or the Constantinopolitan Empire, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire. The Latin Empire was intended to replace the Byzantine Empire as the Western-recognized Roman Empire in the east, with a Catholic emperor enthroned in place of the Eastern Orthodox Roman emperors. The main objective to form a Latin Empire was planned over the course of the Fourth Crusade, promoted by crusade leaders such as Boniface I of Montferrat, as well as the Republic of Venice.

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Born on March 19

Nico Collins 1999– American football player (born 1999)
Caylee Cowan 1998– American actress (born 1998)
Julian Love 1998– American football player (born 1998)
Sakura Miyawaki 1998– Japanese singer and actress (born 1998)
Yung Gravy 1996– American rapper (born 1996)
Barbara Haas 1996– Austrian tennis player
Quenton Nelson 1996– American football player (born 1996)
Héctor Bellerín 1995– Spanish footballer (born 1995)
Julia Montes 1995– Filipino actress (born 1995)
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Hakim Ziyech 1993– Moroccan footballer (born 1993)
Aleksandr Kokorin 1991– Russian footballer (born 1991)
EJ Manuel 1990– American football player (born 1990)
Anders Nilsson 1990– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1990)
Clayton Kershaw 1988– American baseball player (born 1988)
Ben Uzoh 1988– Nigerian-American basketball player (born 1988)
AJ Lee 1987– American professional wrestler and author
Michal Švec 1987– Czech footballer
Miloš Teodosić 1987– Serbian basketball player (born 1987)

People

Died on March 19

Chuck Norris American martial artist and actor (1940–2026)
Glynn Lunney NASA engineer (1936–2021)
William Whitfield British architect (1920–2019)
Roger Agnelli Brazilian banker and businessman (born 1959)
Jack Mansell English football player and manager (1927–2016)
Gus Douglass American politician (1927–2015)
Safet Plakalo Bosnian writer (1950–2015)
Danny Schechter American television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, and media critic
Patrick Joseph McGovern Billionaire businessman and entrepreneur
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Fred Phelps American pastor and activist (1929–2014)
Heather Robertson Canadian journalist, novelist and non-fiction writer (1942–2014)
Robert S. Strauss American diplomat (1918–2014)
Lawrence Walsh American judge (1912–2014)
Joseph F. Weis American judge
Jim Case American film producer
Ulu Grosbard Belgian-American theatre and film director
Hugo Munthe-Kaas Norwegian intelligence agent (born 1922)
Kym Bonython Australian artist, driver, and politician (1920–2011)

Timeline

Every March 19 on record

  1. 1205 Latin forces under Henry of Flanders defeat a Nicaean army under Constantine Laskaris in the Battle of Adramyttion.

    Crusader state that replaced the Byzantine Empire from 1204–1261

    The Latin Empire, also referred to as the Latin Empire of Constantinople or the Constantinopolitan Empire, was a feudal Crusader state founded by the leaders of the Fourth Crusade on lands captured from the Byzantine Empire. The Latin Empire was intended to replace the Byzantine Empire as the Western-recognized Roman Empire in the east, with a Catholic emperor enthroned in place of the Eastern Orthodox Roman emperors. The main objective to form a Latin Empire was planned over the course of the Fourth Crusade, promoted by crusade leaders such as Boniface I of Montferrat, as well as the Republic of Venice.

  2. 1227 Election of Ugolino di Conti as Pope Gregory IX following the death of Pope Honorius III.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241

    Pope Gregory IX was head of the Catholic Church and the ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 until his death in 1241. He is known for issuing the Decretales and instituting the Papal Inquisition, in response to the failures of the episcopal inquisitions established during the time of Pope Lucius III, by means of the papal bull Ad abolendam, issued in 1184.

  3. 1277 The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.

    Peace treaty

    The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 was an agreement between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice that renegotiated and extended for two years the previous 1268 treaty between the two powers. The agreement was beneficial for both sides: Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos kept the Venetians and their fleet from participating in the attempts of Charles of Anjou to organize an anti-Byzantine crusade, while the Venetians were able to retain their access to the Byzantine market, and even augment their trading privileges by gaining direct access to the Black Sea and the right to their own quarters in Constantinople and Thessalonica. Furthermore, they were able to stop the Byzantine reconquest of Venetian-aligned territories in the Aegean, although the treaty explicitly allowed both sides to continue fighting for control of the island of Euboea (Negroponte).

  4. 1279 A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.

    East Asian ethnic group

    The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China, as well as the republics of Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia. The Mongols are the principal member of the large family of Mongolic peoples. The Oirats and the Buryats are classified either as distinct ethno-linguistic groups or as subgroups of Mongols.

  5. 1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.

    1284 decree by King Edward I establishing the Principality of Wales

    The Statute of Rhuddlan, also known as the Statutes of Wales or as the Statute of Wales, was a royal ordinance by Edward I of England, which gave the constitutional basis for the government of the Principality of Wales from 1284 until 1536.

  6. 1452 Frederick III of Habsburg is the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by Pope Nicholas V.
  7. 1563 The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
  8. 1649 The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
  9. 1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
  10. 1808 Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.
  11. 1812 The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
  12. 1824 American explorer Benjamin Morrell departs Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.
  13. 1831 First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars steal $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street. Most of the money was recovered.
  14. 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  15. 1885 Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
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  1. 1918 The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
  2. 1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
  3. 1921 Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
  4. 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
  5. 1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
  6. 1944 World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
  7. 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
  8. 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
  9. 1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
  10. 1958 The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
  11. 1962 The Algerian War of Independence ends.
  12. 1964 Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
  13. 1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
  14. 1969 The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
  15. 1979 The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

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