September 19
What happened on September 19 in history
6 events fall on September 19, from 1356 to 1991. Read them below, then try to place a historical scene yourself — guess where in the world it happened and in what year.
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Events on September 19
1356
The Battle of Poitiers
The Black Prince captures the king of France.
1783
A sheep, a duck and a cockerel fly
The Montgolfiers send the first balloon passengers up at Versailles.
1893
New Zealand gives women the vote
The first self-governing country to grant universal women's suffrage.
1957
The first underground nuclear test
The United States detonates a device inside a Nevada mountain.
1985
The Mexico City earthquake
A magnitude 8.0 quake kills thousands and topples hundreds of buildings.
1991
Ötzi the Iceman is found
Hikers discover a 5,300-year-old body melting out of an Alpine glacier.
Two hikers found a body in melting ice at the Tisenjoch pass in the Ötztal Alps, assuming it was a recent casualty. It was a man who died around 3,300 BC, preserved with his clothing, copper axe, bow and the arrowhead lodged in his shoulder. Ötzi has been studied in extraordinary detail, down to his last meals and his sequenced genome.