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Year '1719' ('MDCCXIX') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.

★ February 20 - First Treaty of Stockholm

★ April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes ''Robinson Crusoe''.

★ June 4 - At the Battle of Osel Island, a Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.

★ June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel is fought.

July - December

★ December 22 - Andrew Bradford publishes the ''American Weekly Mercury'', Pennsylvania's first newspaper.

Undated

★ Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census.

★ Miners in Falun, Sweden find the apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine.

★ France declares war on Spain.

★ Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green, opens in Wapping (opened by Henry Raine).

Ongoing events

★ Great Northern War (1700-1721)

Births

★ January 2 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (died 1797)

★ January 3 - Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (died 1773)

★ January 17 - William Vernon, American merchant (died 1806)

★ January 23 - John Landen, English mathematician (died 1790)

★ January 28 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (died 1749)

★ March 4 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (died 1777)

★ March 13 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (died 1797)

★ April 2 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (died 1803)

★ May 30 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (died 1806)

★ June 28 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (died 1785)

★ July 4 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (died 1797)

★ August 4 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (died 1767)

★ August 20 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (died 1783)

★ August 20 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (died 1791)

★ August 25 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (died 1795)

★ September 27 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (died 1800)

★ October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (died 1792)

★ October 20 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died 1772)

★ November 14 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1787)

★ November 23 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (died 1777)

★ November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (died 1772)

★ December 15 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1742)

★ ''date unknown'' - Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d. 1793)
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Deaths

★ April 7 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (born 1651)

★ April 15 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born 1635)

★ April 21 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1640)

★ June 17 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (born 1672)

★ July 5 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (born 1641)

★ September 7 - John Harris (writer), English writer (born c.1666)

★ September 21 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (born 1647)

★ September 27 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)

★ November 8 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born 1652)

★ December 2 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born 1634)

★ November 26 - John Hudson, English classical scholar (born 1662)

★ December 31 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born 1646)

★ ''date unknown'' - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (born 1667)
: ''See also .''