Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 19
- 711 – Muslim forces under Tariq ibn-Ziyad defeated Roderic, king of the Visigoths in Spain.
- 1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
- 1848 – The two day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
- 1870 – France declared war on Prussia, starting the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrew the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.