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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 20 - Jacques Offenbach, composer
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
Category:1819
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