What happened on 19 August?

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

1. 1991 August Coup attempt in USSR Hardline Soviet officials try to oust Gorbachev; Yeltsin defies them on a tank in Moscow.
2. 1745 The standard raised at Glenfinnan Charles Edward Stuart lands in the Hebrides with seven companions, no army and pawned jewels — and against every sensible chief's advice raises his father's standard at Glenfinnan,
3. 1839 Daguerreotype announced Louis Daguerre's photographic process publicly announced in Paris; first widely accessible photographic medium.
4. 1936 Death of Federico García Lorca Poet and playwright executed by Nationalist forces at Víznar; symbol of cultural cost of the Civil War.
5. 1989 The Pan-European Picnic breaches the Iron Curtain At a 'peace picnic' on the Austro-Hungarian border, the gate is opened for a symbolic three hours — and six hundred East German holidaymakers sprint through while the border guards
6. 14 Death of Augustus Founder of the Principate dies at Nola; his stepson Tiberius succeeds, demonstrating the dynastic logic of the new system.
7. 1942 Dieppe Raid Nearly 5,000 Canadians assault a defended French port; over half are killed, wounded or captured in nine hours — the disaster whose lessons were spent on D-Day.
8. 1477 Marriage of Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy Weeks after her father falls at Nancy, Europe's richest heiress marries the emperor's son — the first great stroke of 'let others wage war; you, happy Austria, marry'.
9. 1978 The Rex Cinema fire Arsonists lock the doors of a packed cinema in Abadan and some 470 people burn to death. The crowd blames the Shah's secret police — it later emerges Islamist militants set the fir
10. 1948 Hyperinflation finishes the Nationalists The gold yuan, introduced to halt a currency already printing itself worthless, loses 99.9 per cent of its value within months — wages carried in sacks, savings of the urban middle