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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).
Events of
January - June
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January 23 - The
Principality of
Liechtenstein is created within the
Holy Roman Empire.
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February 20 - First
Treaty of Stockholm
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April 25 -
Daniel Defoe publishes ''
Robinson Crusoe''.
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June 4 - At the
Battle of Osel Island, a Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.
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June 10 -
Battle of Glen Shiel is fought.
July - December
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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.
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France declares war on
Spain.
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Raine's Foundation School,
Bethnal Green, opens in
Wapping (opened by
Henry Raine).
Ongoing events
★
Great Northern War (
1700-
1721)
Births
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January 2 -
Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (died
1797)
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January 3 -
Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (died
1773)
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January 17 -
William Vernon, American merchant (died
1806)
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January 23 -
John Landen, English mathematician (died
1790)
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January 28 -
Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (died
1749)
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March 4 -
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (died
1777)
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March 13 -
John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (died
1797)
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April 2 -
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (died
1803)
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May 30 -
Roger Newdigate, English politician (died
1806)
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June 28 -
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (died
1785)
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July 4 -
Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (died
1797)
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August 4 -
Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (died
1767)
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August 20 -
Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (died
1783)
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August 20 -
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (died
1791)
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August 25 -
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (died
1795)
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September 27 -
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (died
1800)
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October 17 -
Jacques Cazotte, French writer (died
1792)
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October 20 -
Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died
1772)
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November 14 -
Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (died
1787)
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November 23 -
Spranger Barry, Irish actor (died
1777)
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November 30 -
Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (died
1772)
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December 15 -
Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died
1742)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d.
1793)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
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April 7 -
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (born
1651)
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April 15 -
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of
Louis XIV of France (born
1635)
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April 21 -
Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born
1640)
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June 17 -
Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (born
1672)
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July 5 -
Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (born
1641)
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September 7 -
John Harris (writer), English writer (born c.
1666)
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September 21 -
Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (born
1647)
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September 27 -
George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (born
1662)
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November 8 -
Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born
1652)
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December 2 -
Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born
1634)
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November 26 -
John Hudson, English classical scholar (born
1662)
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December 31 -
John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born
1646)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (born
1667)
: ''See also .''