1819
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s |
| Years: | 1816 1817 1818 – 1819 – 1820 1821 1822 |
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Year 1819 (MDCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) in the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1819
- January 2 – The Panic of 1819 (the first major financial crisis in the United States) begins.
- January 17 – Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Gran Colombia.
- January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.
- January 29 – Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
- February 2 – The Supreme Court under John Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College in the famous Dartmouth College v. Woodward case, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution.
- February 6 – A formal treaty between Hussein Shah of Johor and the British Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles establishes a trading settlement in Singapore.
- February 15 – The United States House of Representatives agrees to the Tallmadge Amendment barring slaves from the new state of Missouri (the opening vote in a controversy that leads to the Missouri Compromise).
- February 22 – Spain cedes Florida to the United States (see Adams-Onís Treaty).
- March 1 – The U.S. naval vessel USS Columbus is launched in Washington, DC.
- March 6 – McCulloch v. Maryland: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Bank of the United States is constitutional.
- March 20 – Burlington Arcade opens in London.
- May 22 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrives at Liverpool, England on June 20.
- August 6 – Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
- August 7 – Battle of Boyacá: Simón Bolívar is victorious over the Royalist Army in Colombia.
- August 16 – Peterloo Massacre: The cavalry charges into a crowd of protesters in Manchester, UK, resulting in 11 deaths and over 400 injuries.
- September 20 – The Carlsbad Decree is issued throughout the German Confederation.
- December 14 – Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
[edit] Undated
- The 'Ai Noa Movement takes power in Hawaii.
- Serfdom is abolished in Livonia.
- The city of Fernandina of Jagua (later Cienfuegos City) is founded in Cuba.
- By terms of the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain ceded Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas that they might have from the Louisiana Purchase and $5 million.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1819 MDCCCXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2571 |
| Armenian calendar | 1268 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -25 – -24 |
| Bengali calendar | 1226 |
| Berber calendar | 2769 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2363 |
| Burmese calendar | 1181 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7327 – 7328 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊寅年十二月初六日 (4455/4515-12-6) — to —
己卯年十一月十五日(4456/4516-11-15) |
| Coptic calendar | 1535 – 1536 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1811 – 1812 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5579 – 5580 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1875 – 1876 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1741 – 1742 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4920 – 4921 |
| Holocene calendar | 11819 |
| Iranian calendar | 1197 – 1198 |
| Islamic calendar | 1234 – 1235 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 2 (文政2年) |
| Korean calendar | 4152 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2362 |
[edit] January–June
- January 6 – Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
- February 8 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (d. 1900)
- February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, American composer (d. 1890)
- February 14 – Joshua A. Norton, self-proclaimed "Emperor of these United States" (d. 1880)
- February 20 – Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
- February 22 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
- March 3 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (d. 1912)
- March 14 – Erik Edlund, Swedish physicist and meteorologist (d. 1888)
- March 31 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
- April 4 – Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
- April 9 – Annibale de Gasparis, Italian astronomer (d. 1892)
- April 11 – Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
- April 18 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
- April 28 – Ezra Abbot, American Biblical scholar (d. 1884)
- May 5 – Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish composer (d. 1872)
- May 24 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
- May 27 – Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist and poet (d. 1910)
- May 31 – Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
- June 5 – John Couch Adams, English astronomer (d. 1892)
- June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
- June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (d. 1880)
- June 29 – Nicolae Bălcescu, Wallachian revolutionary (d. 1852)
[edit] July–December
- July 19 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
- August 1
- Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886)
- Herman Melville, American novelist (d. 1891)
- August 13 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist (d. 1903)
- August 25 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (d. 1884)
- August 26 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
- September 7 – Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
- September 13 – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (d. 1896)
- September 22 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
- October 16 – Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (d. 1886)
- October 20 – The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi Faith (d. 1850)
- November 22 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
- December 10 – Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary (d. 1858)
- December 30 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] January–June
- January 9 – Princess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, Queen of Württemberg (b. 1788)
- February 5 – Nikolai Nikolev, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1758)
- February 17 – Henry Constantine Jennings, British collector and gambler (b. 1731)
- February 25 – Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, poet (b. 1734)
- March – Nonosbawsut, Beothuk leader
- March 10 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (b. 1743)
- April – Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1730)
- May 8 – Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (b. 1738)
- May 22 – Hugh Williamson, American Founding Father (b. 1735)
- June 6 – Johann von Hiller, Austrian general (b. 1754)
[edit] July–December
- July 1 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1754)
- August 21 – Haim Farkhi, Jewish adviser to Ottoman Empire (assassinated) (b. 1760)
- August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
- August 25 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
- September 12 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
- September 20 – Abbé Faria, hypnotist (b. 1746)
- October 13 – Imperial Concubine Chun of the Jiaqing Emperor of China
- December 5 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
- December 19 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
- date unknown – Mariano Osorio, Governor of Chile (b. 1777)
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