Quick glance of 19 April in the pages of History

April 19: Here are the major events that occurred on 19 April….

• 19 April, 1451:On this day, Delhi was captured by Bahlol Lodi. Bahlol Lodi was the founder of the Lodi dynasty from the Delhi Sultanate upon the abdication of the last claimant from the previous Sayyid rule. He  became sultan of the dynasty on 19 April 1451.
• 19 April, 1526: Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, laid the foundations of the Mughal rule.
• 19 April, 1539: Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt

• 19 April, 1770: British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia
• 19 April, 1775: American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The “Shot Heard Round the World” took place in Concord later that day.
• 19 April, 1789: Born on this day, Wazir Ali Khan fourth nawab wazir of Oudh. He was the adopted son of Asaf-Ud-Dowlah, who had no son.
• 19 April, 1882: Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist died on this day

• 19 April, 1909: Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church
• 19 April, 1911: George Bernard Shaw’s play “Fanny’s First Play” premieres in London
• 19 April, 1948: Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
• 19 April, 1948: Burma joined the United Nations.

• 19 April, 1955: Edward James Corbett, better known as Jim Corbett, a British legendary hunter & conservationist of Kumaon died on this day. 
• 19 April, 1957: Mukesh Ambani, Indian business tycoon and chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries Limited, was born.

• 19 April, 1972: Bangladesh becomes a member of the British Commonwealth
• 19 April, 1975: On this day in 1975, India’s first satellite Aryabhata was launched into orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. Aryabhata was the first uncrewed Earth satellite built by India.
• 19 April, 2011:  Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.