Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 19

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 * 715 – Gregory II began his pontificate; his conflict with Byzantine emperor Leo III eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the pope.
 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison west of Montreal surrendered to British troops at the Battle of the Cedars.
 * 1780 – A combination of thick smoke, fog, and heavy cloud cover caused darkness to fall on parts of Canada and the New England area of the United States by noon.
 * 1845 – Captain John Franklin (pictured) departed Greenhithe, England, on an expedition to the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage; all 129 men were later lost when their ships became icebound in Victoria Strait.
 * 1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
 * 1991 – Breakup of Yugoslavia: With the local Serb population boycotting the referendum, Croatians voted in favour of independence from Yugoslavia.
 * 1997 – The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, which encompasses the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, was established as a result of grassroots efforts.
 * 2010 – In Bangkok, the Thai military (pictured) concluded a week-long crackdown on widespread protests by forcing the surrender of opposition leaders.
 * 2015 – A corroded pipeline near Refugio State Beach, California, spilled 142,800 gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto the Gaviota Coast.
 * Born/died: | Dunstan |d|988| Helena of Moscow |b|1476| Mariam-uz-Zamani |d|1623| George Washington Whistler |b|1800| Nellie Melba |b|1861| Nathaniel Hawthorne |d|1864| Ruth Ella Moore |b|1903| Nicholas Winton |b|1909| Erin Phillips |b|1985| Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |d|1994| Jeffrey Catherine Jones |d|2011

May 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day in Turkey (1919)


 * 1655 – Anglo-Spanish War: England invaded Spanish Jamaica, capturing it a week later.
 * 1743 – French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a mercury thermometer using the centigrade scale, with 0 representing the melting point of water and 100 its boiling point.
 * 1828 – The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship in the American South.
 * 1915 – First World War: Australian and New Zealand troops repelled the third attack on Anzac Cove, inflicting heavy casualties on the attacking Ottoman forces.
 * 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (both pictured) took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England.