1819

Years:
1816 1817 1818 – 1819 – 1820 1821 1822

Decades:
1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s

Centuries:
18th century – 19th century – 20th century

1819 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada – Rail transport - Science - South Africa – Sport

Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders

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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