1819

1819 (MDCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1819th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 819th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1819, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1819 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1819
MDCCCXIX
Ab urbe condita2572
Armenian calendar1268
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԸ
Assyrian calendar6569
Balinese saka calendar1740–1741
Bengali calendar1226
Berber calendar2769
British Regnal year59 Geo. 3  60 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar2363
Burmese calendar1181
Byzantine calendar7327–7328
Chinese calendar戊寅年 (Earth Tiger)
4515 or 4455
     to 
己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4516 or 4456
Coptic calendar1535–1536
Discordian calendar2985
Ethiopian calendar1811–1812
Hebrew calendar5579–5580
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1875–1876
 - Shaka Samvat1740–1741
 - Kali Yuga4919–4920
Holocene calendar11819
Igbo calendar819–820
Iranian calendar1197–1198
Islamic calendar1234–1235
Japanese calendarBunsei 2
(文政2年)
Javanese calendar1746–1747
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4152
Minguo calendar93 before ROC
民前93年
Nanakshahi calendar351
Thai solar calendar2361–2362
Tibetan calendar阳土虎年
(male Earth-Tiger)
1945 or 1564 or 792
     to 
阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1946 or 1565 or 793
August 7: Battle of Boyacá

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 6June 21 French slave ship Le Rodeur sails from Bonny in West Africa to Guadeloupe in the West Indies; in the course of the transatlantic voyage many onboard become blind, and thirty slaves are thrown overboard as a consequence.[1]
  • April 7 (N.S.) (March 26 O.S.) The Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire emancipates its peasants from serfdom.
  • May 22 The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, although only a fraction of the trip will be made under steam. The ship arrives at Liverpool, England, nearly a month later, on June 20.
  • May 22 The city of Memphis, Tennessee, is founded.
  • June 16 The 7.7–8.2 Mw Rann of Kutch earthquake kills at least 1,543 people in the modern-day Indian state of Gujarat at the Arabian Sea, causing an 80–150 km (50–93 mi) stretch of land to be raised as much as 6 m (20 ft), creating a natural dam, the Allahbund.

JulySeptember

  • July 1 German astronomer Johann Georg Tralles discovers what will be called the Great Comet of 1819.[2]
  • July 21 Explorer William Parry, sailing in the Arctic in a quest for the Northwest Passage through North America, guides the ships HMS Hecla and HMS Griper through an iceberg-laden passage that will later be named the Parry Channel.[3]
  • July 24 A cabinet meeting is convened by British Prime Minister Lord Liverpool to discuss an investigative report of an adulterous affair involving the wife of George, Prince of Wales and regent for his ailing father. Despite reports that Princess Caroline is involved with her servant, Bartolomeo Pergami, the cabinet concludes that the trial of Caroline for adultery would be an embarrassment to the nation.[4]
  • July 30 At Edwardsville, Illinois, the United States concludes a treaty with the Kickapoo tribe, receiving their lands in return for their relocation to Missouri.[5]
  • August 2 Hep-Hep riots, communal pogroms against Ashkenazi Jews in the German Federation begin at Würzburg in Bavaria; they continue until October with many Jews killed.
  • August 6 Norwich University is founded by Captain Alden Partridge in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
  • August 7 Battle of Boyacá: Simón Bolívar is victorious over the Royalist Army in Colombia. Colombia acquires its definitive independence from Spanish rule.
  • August 16 Peterloo Massacre: The cavalry charges into a crowd of radical protesters in Manchester, England, resulting in 15 deaths and over 600 injuries.
  • September 20 The Carlsbad Decrees are issued throughout the German Confederation, suppressing liberal and nationalist views.

OctoberDecember

  • October The ʻAi Noa Movement takes power in Hawaii.
  • October 13 Treaty between the Raja of Cutch Deshalji II, and East India Company. Cutch State entered in rule of East India Company.[6]
  • October 15 Desolation Island, in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic, is discovered by Captain William Smith, in the Williams.
  • November 2 Bagyidaw is crowned as Emperor of Burma, at the imperial capital of Inwa.
  • November 3 The USS Congress, commanded by Captain John D. Henley, becomes the first American warship to visit China, landing at Lintin Island, off of the coast of Canton.[7]
  • November 19 The Museo del Prado, one of the world's great art galleries, opens in Madrid.[8] Initially, it has only 311 significant paintings.[9]
  • November 25 A British expeditionary force reaches Ras Al Khaimah in the Persian Gulf, preparatory to the bombardment and invasion of the town, which led to the signing of the General Maritime Treaty of 1820 between the British and what were to become known as the Trucial States.
  • December 14 Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
  • December 17
    • The Republic of Gran Colombia is formally established, with Simón Bolívar as its first president.
    • The new astronomical observatory of Capodimonte in Naples starts operating. The astronomer Carlo Brioschi made the first observation by measuring the position of ⍺ Cassiopeiae.

Date unknown

  • Denis Johnson invents the kick scooter.
  • The city of Fernandina de Jagua (later Cienfuegos) is founded in Cuba.
  • A British Arctic expedition under William Parry, comprising HMS Hecla and HMS Griper, reaches longitude 112°51' W in the Northwest Passage, the furthest west which will be attained by any single-season voyage for 150 years.[10]
  • The African Slave Trade Patrol is founded, to stop the slave trade on the coast of West Africa.

Births

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Date unknown

  • Alexandru G. Golescu, 11th Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1881)

Deaths

JanuaryJune

JulyDecember

Oliver Hazard Perry

Date unknown

  • Mariano Osorio, Governor of Chile (b. 1777)
  • Franciszek Ksawery Branicki, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1730)

References

  1. "Western Africa". The Missionary Register. London: Church Missionary Society. 9: 284–5. July 1821.
  2. Dometa Wiegand Brothers, The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity (Springer, 2015) p. 127
  3. Clements R. Markham, The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p. 207
  4. Saul David, Prince of Pleasure: The Prince of Wales and the Making of the Regency (Grove Press, 2000) p. 388
  5. Arrell M. Gibson, Kickapoos: Lords of the Middle Border (University of Oklahoma Press, 1975) p. 81.
  6. James Burgess, The Chronology of Modern India, p. 313, Edinburgh, 1913
  7. George B. Clark, Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949 (Greenwood, 2001) p1
  8. "Museums and their precursors: a brief survey", in Manual of Curatorship: A Guide to Museum Practice, ed. by John M. A. Thompson (Routledge, 2015)
  9. James Leonard Mack, My Life, My Country, My World (Dorrance Publishing, 2008)
  10. Journal of a Voyage to Discover a North-west Passage. 1821.
  11. "Albert, Prince Consort | Biography, Children, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
  12. Wisbey, Herbert A. Jr (2009) [1965]. Pioneer Prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7551-1., p. 163; Moyer, Paul B. The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and Religious Enthusiasm in Revolutionary America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015, p. 243
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