It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.

Millions of Germans emigrated from Europe to America in the nineteenth century. From the late nineteenth century Britain and other European powers began to gain control of parts of the …

Since 1866 that day’s anniversary—known as Juneteenth, a combination of June and nineteenth —has been celebrated as the symbolic end of American slavery. Meg Matthias

Jun 19, 2015 · Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be …

NINETEENTH definition: next after the eighteenth; being the ordinal number for 19. See examples of nineteenth used in a sentence.

a. coming after the eighteenth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc, being the ordinal number of nineteen. Often written: 19th b. (as noun): the nineteenth was rainy.

Nov 27, 2025 · Noun [edit] nineteenth (plural nineteenths) The person or thing in the nineteenth position. One of nineteen equal parts of a whole.

A nineteenth is one of nineteen equal parts of something. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Nineteenth definition: The ordinal number matching the number 19 in a series.

The original text of the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.