Events on 19 June 37
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The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
Year 1269
King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
Year 1306
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
Year 1586
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
Year 1800
War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
Year 1816
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Year 1821
Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
Year 1846
The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
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