Events on 19 September 45
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Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine I.
Year 634
Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
Year 1356
Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II.
Year 1676
Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.
Year 1777
American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga.
Year 1796
George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
Year 1799
French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
Year 1846
Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
Year 1862
American Civil War: Battle of Iuka: Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
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Deaths on 19 September 78
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