- October 19, 0202 BC – The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
- October 19, 0439 “The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.”
- October 19, 1216 King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
- October 19, 1453 “The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years’ War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.”
- October 19, 1466 The Thirteen Years’ War ends with the Second Treaty of Toru. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
- October 19, 1469 “Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.”
- October 19, 1512 Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- October 19, 1781 “At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.”
- October 19, 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
- October 19, 1789 Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
- October 19, 1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
- October 19, 1812 Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
- October 19, 1813 “The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.”
- October 19, 1818 US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
- October 19, 1822 “In Parnaba; Simplcio Dias da Silva, Joo Cndido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piau.”
- October 19, 1853 First flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
- October 19, 1856 James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
- October 19, 1859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope
- October 19, 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
- October 19, 1864 “Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.”
- October 19, 1870 Four blacks elected to House of Representatives
- October 19, 1872 World’s largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
- October 19, 1873 “Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.”
- October 19, 1889 Portugal’s Luiz I dies at age 51 after a 28-year reign in which slavery has been abolished in every Portuguese colony
- October 19, 1901 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
- October 19, 1904 Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O’Reilley.
- October 19, 1912 “Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.”
- October 19, 1912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
- October 19, 1914 The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- October 19, 1917 “Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.”
- October 19, 1919 First Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
- October 19, 1921 Portuguese Prime Minister Antnio Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- October 19, 1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
- October 19, 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- October 19, 1943 “Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.”
- October 19, 1943 “Theater Guild presentation of “”Othello”” opens”
- October 19, 1944 United States forces land in the Philippines.
- October 19, 1944 US forces land in Philipines
- October 19, 1945 “Foundation of War Widow’s Guild of Australia The guild’s first president was Mrs Jessie Vasey, widow of Major-General GA Vasey, who had asked his wife to “”look after the widows”””
- October 19, 1950 The military of the People’s Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.