Events on 19 March 43
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The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
Year 1649
The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
Year 1687
Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
Year 1863
The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
Year 1865
American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
Year 1885
Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
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