1819
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 Boyaca 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 author, poet, artist, art critic and social critic.
- February 14 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of the United States of America" (Or January 17, 1811).
- February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet and essayist
- March 3 - Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist.
- April 4 - Queen Maria II of Portugal
- April 9 - Annibale de Gasparis, Italian astronomer
- April 11 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor
- April 18 - Franz von Suppé, composer
- April 28 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar
- May 24 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom
- May 31 - Walt Whitman, American poet
- June 5 - John Couch Adams, astronomer
- June 10 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
- June 20 - Jacques Offenbach, composer
- July 19 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss poet 9d. 1890)
- August 1 - Richard Dadd, insane Victorian fairy painter
- August 1 - Herman Melville, American novelist
- August 25 - Allan Pinkerton, American detective (d. 1884)
- August 26 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, later Prince Consort to Queen Victoria.
- September 13 - Clara Schumann, Austrian composer
- September 17 - Thomas Hendricks, former Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
- September 22 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian
- October 20 - The Báb, prophet founder of the Bábi Faith, a religion which was to become the precursor to the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1850)
- November 22 - George Eliot, British novelist
- Felice Orsini, revolutionary
Deaths - July 1 - Jemima Wilkinson, preacher
- August 19 - James Watt, inventor
- August 23 - Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer
- December 5 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
- Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
- Saartje Baartman
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