Editing October 19 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[New Ross|New Ross town]] in Ireland surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
*[[1781]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: The [[siege of Yorktown]] comes to an end.
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[John Jay]] is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Drottningholm]], between Sweden and Russia<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Anusik |first1=Zbigniew |title=The Commonwealth of Poland towards Russia in the final stage of the Great Diet (1791–1792) |journal=Przegląd Nauk Historycznych |date=5 November 2017 |volume=16 |issue=3 |page=104 |doi=10.18778/1644-857X.16.03.03 |access-date=21 November 2023|url=https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/api/file/viewByFileId/300952.pdf}}</ref>
*[[1805]] &ndash; War of the Third Coalition: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to Napoleon at the [[Battle of Ulm]].
*[[1812]] &ndash; The [[French invasion of Russia]] fails when Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
*[[1813]] &ndash; War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon is forced to retreat from Germany after the [[Battle of Leipzig]].
*[[1847]] &ndash; The novel ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' is published in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1847-10-13?NewspaperTitle=Daily%2BNews%2B(London)&IssueId=BL%2F0000051%2F18471013%2F&County=London%2C%20England |title=On Tuesday next will be published, and may be had at all the libraries, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. 3 vols, post 8vo. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. |newspaper=Daily News|page=1| date=13 October 1847}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Cedar Creek]] ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
*  1864   &ndash; American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada [[St. Albans Raid|rob three banks]] in Saint Albans, Vermont.
*[[1866]] &ndash; In accordance with the [[Treaty of Vienna (1866)|Treaty of Vienna]], Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Max Planck]] discovers [[Planck's law]] of black-body radiation.