What happened on 19 April?

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

1. 1775 American Revolutionary War Thirteen Colonies defeat Britain with French aid; the United States is born.
2. 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord First armed engagements of the American Revolution; Paul Revere's ride; "shot heard round the world".
3. 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jewish resistance fought the SS for nearly a month before the ghetto was razed.
4. 1824 Byron dies at Missolonghi Europe's most famous poet, having given his fortune and his name to the Greek cause, dies of fever in the marsh town he was helping defend — without fighting a battle. The death do
5. 1971 First space station (Salyut 1) Soviet space station — first in orbit.
6. 2005 Election of Pope Benedict XVI Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger becomes pope, a conservative theologian who would later become the first to resign in 600 years.
7. 1995 Oklahoma City bombing Anti-government extremists bomb a federal building, killing 168 in the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history.
8. 1941 Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children Anti-war epic theatre piece - Brecht's verfremdungseffekt.
9. 2024 Indian general election 2024 Modi wins a third term but without a majority — NDA coalition forms government.
10. 1713 Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 Charles VI decrees that his daughter may inherit the undivided Habsburg lands, then spends his reign buying Europe's worthless signatures to it.
11. 2021 Ingenuity: first flight on another planet A 1.8-kilogram helicopter rises three metres above Mars carrying a scrap of the Wright Flyer's wing — 72 flights instead of the planned five.
12. 2024 Bitcoin halving #4 Bitcoin's fourth halving event.