1819

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

Years: 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 - 1819 - 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Heads of states

Events

• January 17 - Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia
• February 6 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds 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.
• 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 16 - Peterloo massacre in Manchester, UK
• December 4 - Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
• Panic of 1819 - Global economic crisis

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

• 1819 in literature:
• 1819 in music
• 1819 in science

Births

• February 11 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer.
• February 14 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of the United States of America" (Or January 17, 1811).
• February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet and essayist
• 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 26 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, later Prince Consort to Queen Victoria.
• September 13 - Clara Schumann, Austrian composer
• November 22 - George Eliot, British novelist

Deaths

• August 19 - James Watt, inventor
• August 23 - Oliver Perry, American naval officer
• Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Russia - Alexander I Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)