Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 19
This is a list of selected July 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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- 711 – Muslim conquests: Moorish Umayyad invaders led by Tariq ibn Ziyad defeated Roderic and the Visigoths at the Battle of Guadalete.
- 1870 – A dispute over who would become the next Spanish monarch following the deposition of Isabella II (pictured) during the 1868 Glorious Revolution led France to declare war on Prussia.
- 1908 – Feyenoord Rotterdam, today one of the "big three" professional football teams in the Netherlands, was founded as the club Wilhelmina in a pub.
