What happened on 19 March?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1853 Taiping capture Nanjing Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace establishes its capital; civil war devastates the Yangtze valley.
2. 1882 Construction of the Sagrada Família Work on Barcelona's basilica begins in 1882; Gaudí takes over the project in 1883 and devotes the rest of his life to it. Construction continues today.
3. 1998 Premiership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee The first BJP prime minister to serve a full term: the Pokhran-II tests, the Kargil war and the Golden Quadrilateral.
4. 1813 Born: David Livingstone Scottish missionary-explorer of Africa, met by Stanley near Lake Tanganyika.
5. 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Steel through-arch bridge linking the city's north and south shores.
6. 1284 Statute of Wales Edward I's Statute of Rhuddlan annexes the Principality of Wales to the English Crown.
7. 1812 Spanish Constitution of 1812 Cortes of Cádiz adopts a liberal constitution during the Peninsular War; influence on subsequent constitutional thought in Spanish America.
8. 1896 Dvořák's Cello Concerto Written in New York, homesick, and reworked in mourning for his first love, it premieres in London and becomes the cello concerto against which all others are measured.