User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/February 19

February 19

 * 197 – Roman Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
 * 1674 - England and the Netherlands sign the Peace of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, which renamed it New York.
 * 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli began.
 * 1941 - World War II: The Afrika Korps, the corps-level headquarters controlling the German Panzer divisions in North Africa, was formed.
 * 1942 - World War II: nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack Darwin, Australia.
 * 1943 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
 * 1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.