Template:On this day/May 19

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

May 19:

• 1744 – Sophia Charlotte]], the future Queen Charlotte and namesake of Charlottesville, was born in Germany.
• 1924 – J. F. Harlan, a longtime West Main Street merchant, died.
• 1951 – The Thomas Jefferson Inn opened. The building later became part of the Federal Executive Institute.
• 2022 – A Virginia historic marker honoring Gregory Hayes Swanson was unveiled outside the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library's Central Branch.