1819
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1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).
Events
- 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 Sultan Hussein of Johor and the British Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles originates Singapore
- February 15 – The United States House of Representatives agrees to Tallmadge Amendment to bar slaves from new state of Missouri--opening vote in controversy that leads to Missouri Compromise
- February 22 – Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
- March 1 – USS Columbus launched
- March 20 – Burlington Arcade opened 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 will arrive at Liverpool, England on June 20
- August 7 – Battle of Boyacá in Colombia – Simón Bolívar wins
- August 16 – Peterloo massacre in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, UK. Cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters causes deaths of 400.
- December 4 – Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
- Panic of 1819 – Global economic crisis
- Norwich University founded by Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the country on the concept of the citizen soldier.
- 'Ai Noa in Hawaii.
Births
- February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
- February 8 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (d. 1900)
- February 22 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
- March 3 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (d. 1912)
- 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 24 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
- 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)
- July 19 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss poet (d. 1890)
- August 1 – Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886)
- August 1 – 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 13 – Clara Schumann, German composer and pianist (d. 1896)
- September 17 – Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
- September 22 – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
- October 20 – The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábi 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)
Deaths
- July 1 – Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1754)
- August 19 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
- August 23 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer (b. 1785)
- December 5 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
- Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
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