On May 19
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly May 19 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (May 16 – May 22)
On 20 May 1498 the Portuguese commander Vasco da Gama anchored near Calicut (Kozhikode) on India's Malabar Coast, becoming the first European to reach India by sea.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret wartime convention concluded on 16 May 1916 between Britain and France, with the assent of Imperial Russia, to define their respective spheres of influence and control in the Arab lands of the Ottoman…
18 May 1848 – June 1849The Frankfurt Parliament and the failure of liberal German unificationPolitics & governance
The Frankfurt National Assembly, which first met in the Paulskirche on 18 May 1848, was the first freely elected parliament for all of Germany and the boldest attempt of the 1848 revolutions to create a unified, constitutional German…