| 30571 | March 19 | Event | 1563 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots. |
| 30572 | March 19 | Event | 1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England". |
| 30573 | March 19 | Event | 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. |
| 30574 | March 19 | Event | 1812 – The Cádiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812. |
| 30575 | March 19 | Event | 1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864. |
| 30576 | March 19 | Event | 1861 – The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand. |
| 30577 | March 19 | Event | 1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. |
| 30578 | March 19 | Event | 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina. |
| 30579 | March 19 | Event | 1885 – Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion. |
| 30580 | March 19 | Event | 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph. |
| 30581 | March 19 | Event | 1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. |
| 30582 | March 19 | Event | 1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919). |
| 30583 | March 19 | Event | 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them. |
| 30584 | March 19 | Event | 1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada. |
| 30585 | March 19 | Event | 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened. |
| 30586 | March 19 | Event | 1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated. |
| 30587 | March 19 | Event | 1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard. |
| 30588 | March 19 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary. |
| 30589 | March 19 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power. |
| 30590 | March 19 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed. |
| 30591 | March 19 | Event | 1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France. |
| 30592 | March 19 | Event | 1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour. |
| 30593 | March 19 | Event | 1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today. |
| 30594 | March 19 | Event | 1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. |
| 30595 | March 19 | Event | 1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label. |
| 30596 | March 19 | Event | 1962 – The Algerian War of Independence against the French ends. |
| 30597 | March 19 | Event | 1965 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction. |
| 30598 | March 19 | Event | 1966 – Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four with an all-black starting lineup. |
| 30599 | March 19 | Event | 1969 – The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up. |
| 30600 | March 19 | Event | 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN. |