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1819

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 Stanford 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.

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 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)

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)

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)