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May 19.
Not a really big day.
1499. Catherine of Aragon, then 12, is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, then 13. They do not meet for another two years, and soon thereafter Arthur dies. Seeking to avoid paying back the dowry, King Henry VII arranges to have her marry his second son, Henry, Duke of York, who will become Henry VIII. His efforts to divorce Catherine will result in Henry's break with the Catholic Church and the conversion of England to Protestantism.
Her daughter will become Queen Mary I of England, better known as Bloody Mary, whose efforts to revert the kingdom back to Catholicism are reversed by her successor, and half-sister, Queen Elizabeth I.
1802. Napoleon founds the Legion of Honor.
1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the MExican-American War and ceded over vast amounts of territory to the US.
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