What happened in 1819?
123 recorded events in 1819, including 59 in people, 17 in architecture & engineering and 13 in economy & trade.
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Wars & Conflicts 5
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Battle of Boyacá
1819 battle
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Battle of Vargas Swamp
1819 battle
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Battle of Shopian
1819 battle
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Battle of Grahamstown
1819 battle between the British and Xhosa during the Fifth Xhosa War
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Battle of Mesamávida
1819 military battle
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Politics & Government 2
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Treaty of Saginaw
1819 treaty between the United States and the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples
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1819 Singapore Treaty
Agreement to set up British trading post in Singapore
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People 59
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Kamehameha I died
Founder and ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii
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James Watt died
British engineer (1736–1819)
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Alexander Baranov died
Trader and manager of trading posts in Russian America (1746-1819)
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John Marshall died
British captain (1748-1819)
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Daniel Rutherford died
British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)
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John Playfair died
Scottish scientist and mathematician (1748-1819)
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William Baldwin died
U.S. physician and botanist (1779–1819)
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John William Lewin died
English-born naturalist and artist, active in Australia from 1800 ((1770 – 1819)
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Bárbara Heliodora died
Brazilian poet and activist (1759-1819)
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John Jeffries died
Boston physician, scientist, and military surgeon
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Oliver Evans died
American inventor
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Elsa Beata Bunge died
Swedish botanist, writer (1734-1819)
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Vincenzo, Count Dandolo died
Italian scientist (1758-1819)
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Théodore-Pierre Bertin died
French writer (1751-1819)
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Josip Franjo Domin died
Croatian-Hungarian physicist, priest, physician and pioneer of electrotherapy (1754-1819)
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Jean-Jacques Dony died
Industrialist, inventor
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Matthias Wißhofer died
Austrian priest and physicist
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John Bailey died
English agriculturist and engraver (1750-1819)
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Joseph Ritchie died
British explorer and scientist, c. 1788-1819
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George Cartwright died
English army officer and trader in Newfoundland and Labrador (1739-1819)
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Jacques de Saint-Cricq died
French naval officer (1781-1819)
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Ernst Ludwig Gerber died
German composer (1746-1819)
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Jean-Louis Duport died
Cellist and composer
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Micaela Villegas (La Perricholi) died
Peruvian actress
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Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis died
French musician (1769-1819)
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Kaspar Fürstenau died
German flautist (1772-1819)
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Mette Marie Rose died
Danish actress
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Franz Xaver Karl Gewey died
Austrian author (1764-1819)
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Juliane Junghans died
Czech actor
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Magdaléna Zappe died
Stage actor and dancer.
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William 'Gentleman' Smith died
British actor; (1730-1819)
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Philippe-Jacques Meyer died
Alsatian harpist and composer
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Walt Whitman born
Born in West Hills. American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892).
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George Eliot born
Born in Nuneaton. English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880).
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Herman Melville born
Born in Manhattan. American writer and poet (1819–1891).
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John Ruskin born
Born in London. English writer and art critic (1819–1900).
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Báb born
Born in Shiraz. Founder of Bábism and, according to the Baháʼís, predecessor of Baháʼu'lláh.
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Theodor Fontane born
Born in Neuruppin. German novelist and poet (1819–1898).
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Gottfried Keller born
Born in Zurich. Swiss poet and writer of German literature (1819–1890).
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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born
Born in Skreen. Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903).
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William A. Wheeler born
Born in Malone. Vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.
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Thomas A. Hendricks born
Born in Zanesville. American politician (1819–1885).
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Charles Kingsley born
Born in Devon. British clergyman, historian and novelist (1819–1875).
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James Russell Lowell born
Born in Cambridge. American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891).
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Georg V of Hanover born
Born in Berlin. King of Hanover (1819–1878).
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Julia Ward Howe born
Born in New York City. American abolitionist, social activist, and poet.
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Panteleimon Kulish born
Born in Voronizh. Ukrainian writer, historian, ethnographer, and translator (1819–1897).
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo born
Born in Bayamo. Cuban revolutionary hero, plantation, poet, musician; 1st (wartime) President of Cuba (1816-1874).
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Gustave de Molinari born
Born in Liège. Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist (1819–1912).
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George Salmon born
Born in Dublin. Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian (1819–1904).
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Friedrich von Bodenstedt born
Born in Peine. German writer (1819–1892).
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Nicolae Bălcescu born
Born in Bucharest. Romanian journalist and historian (1819–1852).
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William Muir born
Born in Glasgow. Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator (1819–1905).
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William Rosecrans born
Born in Delaware County. American diplomat, politician and army officer (1819–1898).
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Philip Schaff born
Born in Chur. Swiss-born, American theologian and ecclesiastical historian (1819–1893).
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Abner Doubleday born
Born in Ballston Spa. Union Army general.
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Wilhelm Wattenbach born
Born in Rantzau. German paleographer (1819–1897).
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Yuri Samarin born
Born in Saint Petersburg. Russian philosopher (1819–1876).
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Alexander Baranov died
Died in Java. Trader and manager of trading posts in Russian America (1746-1819).
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Science & Technology 7
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Vartiovuori Observatory
Observatory in Turku, Finland
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Montreal General Hospital
Hospital in Canada
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Jardin botanique de Liège
Public park in Liège, Belgium
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Warsaw University Botanical Garden
Warsaw University Botanical Garden (Science & Technology).
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Gatot Soebroto Army Hospital
Hospital in Indonesia
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Dr Gray's Hospital
Hospital in Moray, Scotland, UK
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University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Exploration & Discovery 12
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First expedition to Palembang
First expedition to Palembang (Exploration & Discovery).
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Melville Island
Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Somerset Island
Island in Nunavut, Canada
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Bathurst Island
Island in Nunavut, Canada
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Cornwallis Island
Island in Nunavut, Canada
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Oeno Island
Atoll in the Pitcairn Islands, British Overseas Territories
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Zavodovski Island
Island in South Sandwich Islands
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Byam Martin Island
Island in Nunavut, Canada
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Visokoi Island
Island
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Singapore Stone
Fragment of a large sandstone slab which originally stood at the mouth of the Singapore River, now in the National Museum of Singapore
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Barrow Strait
Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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Frösö Runestone
Runestone
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Religion & Belief Systems 4
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Kokand city mosque
Central mosque in Kokand, Uzbekistan
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Abbaye de la Coudre
Abbey located in Mayenne, in France
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Church of the Renewal of the Temple of the Resurrection at Vagankovo Cemetery
Temple in Presnensky District, Russia
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Synagoge
Cultural heritage monument D-6-77-114-7 (0) in Arnstein (Unterfranken), Bavaria
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Economy & Trade 13
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Wienerberger
Austrian company
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Singapore Post
Singapore domestic and international postal service provider
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Sinebrychoff
Finnish brewery
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Dematic
Business
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Siebe Gorman
British diving equipment company
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Gebrüder Thonet
Former furniture manufacturer
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Farm Progress
American Publisher of Agriculture Topics
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Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry
German type foundry & manufacturer of printing presses started in 1819 in Leipzig
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Siebe plc
Former major company conglomerate for industrial control systems
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Ralli Brothers
Greek businessman in Britain
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Berry and Wollstonecraft
Partnership established in 1819 between Alexander Berry and Edward Wollstonecraft
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Apcar and Company
Indian trading firm
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John Pilling and Sons
UK business
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Disasters & Pandemics 1
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1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake
Earthquake on 16 June 1819 in western India
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Architecture & Engineering 17
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Mikhaylovsky Palace
Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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St James’ Church, Sydney
Anglican parish church in inner city Sydney, Australia
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St Pancras New Church
Church in London Borough of Camden, UK
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Summer Palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Palace in Amritsar, Punjab, India
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Church of the Saviour
Church in Tyumen, Russia
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Tempio Canoviano
Church building in Possagno, Italy
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Moskenes Church
Church in Moskenes, Norway
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Buvik Church
Church in Skaun, Norway
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Sea and Land Church
Church building in Manhattan, New York
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Skärstad Church
Church of Sweden church building in Skärstad, Sweden
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St. Mungo's Parish Church
Church in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK
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St George in the Fields, Hockley
Church in United Kingdom
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Isaakievsky Bridge
Historical floating bridge across the Neva River in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
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St John's Church, Wigan
Church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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St Mary's Church, Wigan
Church in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Dzieduszycki Palace
Monument
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Church of the Holy Trinity
Church in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Sports & Entertainment 1
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Theatre Royal
Regency theatre in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK
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Empires & Countries 2
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Gran Colombia founded
Gran Colombia was founded, with its capital at Bogotá.
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Shaki Khanate dissolved
Shaki Khanate ceased to exist, having been centered at Shaki.
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