Centuries:
18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:
1780s 1790s 1800s – 1810s – 1820s 1830s 1840s
Years:
1816 1817 1818 – 1819 – 1820 1821 1822
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).
Events of 1819
- January 17 – Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of Gran Colombia.
- January 25 – Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia.
- 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.
- 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 on Long Island in New York
- 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 Manchester, UK. Cavalry charge into a crowd of protesters results in 11 deaths and over 400 injuries.
- 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.
- McCulloch v. Maryland case.
- Serfdom is abolished in Livonia.
Births
1819 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar
1819
MDCCCXIX
Ab urbe condita
2572
Armenian calendar
1268
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԸ
Bahá'í calendar
-25 – -24
Berber calendar
2769
Buddhist calendar
2363
Burmese calendar
1181
Chinese calendar
4455/4515-12-6
(戊寅年十二月初六日)
— to —
4456/4516-11-15
(己卯年十一月十五日)
Coptic calendar
1535 – 1536
Ethiopian calendar
1811 – 1812
Hebrew calendar
5579 – 5580
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
1874 – 1875
- Shaka Samvat
1741 – 1742
- Kali Yuga
4920 – 4921
Holocene calendar
11819
Iranian calendar
1197 – 1198
Islamic calendar
1234 – 1235
Japanese calendar
Bunsei 2
(文政2年)
Korean calendar
4152
Thai solar calendar
2362
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 these United States” (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 14 – Eric Edlund, swedish physicist and meteorologist † 1888
- 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
Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886)
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 (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
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. 1738)
- 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)
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