1819

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).

Contents

Events of 1819

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

External links

Events of 1819

January - March

★ January 17 - Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Gran Colombia.

★ January 29 - Sir Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.

★ February 6 - 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 - U.S. naval vessel USS Columbus is launched in Washington, DC.

★ March 20 – Burlington Arcade opened in London.

April - June

★ 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 will arrive at Liverpool, England on June 20.

★ May 31 - Walt Whitman is born in Long Island, New York

July - September

★ August 6 - Norwich University founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

★ August 7 - Simón Bolívar is victorious in the Battle of Boyacá in Colombia.

★ August 16 - Peterloo Massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, UK. Cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in 11 deaths and over 400 injuries.

October - December

★ December 14 - Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.

Undated

★ Panic of 1819 - first major financial crisis in the United States

★ 'Ai Noa in Hawaii.

★ French paradox first identified.

★ Physician Dr. Thomas Sewall convicted on multiple counts of grave robbing in Massachusetts.

★ McCulloch v. Maryland case.

★ Dartmouth College v. Woodward case.

★ Serfdom is abolished in Livonia.
:''See also James Chandler's ''England in 1819''.''

Births

January - June

★ 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 the United States and Protector of Mexico" (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 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)

July - December

★ July 19 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)

★ August 1

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★ Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886)

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★ 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 and the first of the three Central Figures of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1850)

★ November 22 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)

★ December 30 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)

★ Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary (d. 1858)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

January - June

★ February 17 - Henry Constantine Jennings, British collector and gambler (b. 1731)

★ February 25 - Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, poet (b. 1734)

★ May 8 - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (b. unknown)

★ May 22 - Hugh Williamson, American Founding Father (b. 1735)

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)

★ December 5 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)

★ December 19 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, English naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
: ''See also .''

External links

★ 1819 Coin Pictures