1719
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| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s |
| Years: | 1716 1717 1718 - 1719 - 1720 1721 1722 |
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Year 1719 (MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1719
[edit] January - June
- January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- February 20 - First Treaty of Stockholm
- April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
- June 4 - At the Battle of Osel Island, a Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.
- June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel is fought.
[edit] July - December
- December 22 - Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.
[edit] Undated
- Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census.
- Miners in Falun, Sweden find the apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine.
- France declares war on Spain.
- Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green, opens in Wapping (opened by Henry Raine).
[edit] Ongoing events
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1719 MDCCXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2472 |
| Armenian calendar | 1168 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -125 – -124 |
| Berber calendar | 2669 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2263 |
| Burmese calendar | 1081 |
| Chinese calendar | 4355/4415-11-11 (戊戌年十一月十一日) — to —
4356/4416-11-21(己亥年十一月廿一日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1435 – 1436 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1711 – 1712 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5479 – 5480 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1774 – 1775 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1641 – 1642 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4820 – 4821 |
| Holocene calendar | 11719 |
| Iranian calendar | 1097 – 1098 |
| Islamic calendar | 1131 – 1132 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 4 (享保4年) |
| Korean calendar | 4052 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2262 |
- January 2 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (died 1797)
- January 3
- Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (died 1773)
- Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz (died 1802)
- January 17 - William Vernon, American merchant (died 1806)
- January 22 - Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (died 1769)
- January 23 - John Landen, English mathematician (died 1790)
- January 28 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (died 1749)
- March 4 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (died 1777)
- March 13 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (died 1797)
- April 2 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (died 1803)
- April 9 - Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician (died 1804)
- April 24 - Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (died 1789)
- May 30 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (died 1806)
- June 28 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (died 1785)
- July 4 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (died 1797)
- August 4 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (died 1767)
- August 20
- Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (died 1783)
- Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (died 1791)
- August 25 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (died 1795)
- September 6 - Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (died 1754)
- September 11 - Tanuma Okitsugu, Japanese government official (died 1788)
- September 27 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (died 1800)
- October 13 - Marco Coltellini, Italian librettist (died 1777)
- October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (died 1792)
- October 20 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died 1772)
- November 6 - Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (died 1803)
- November 14 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1787)
- November 23 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (died 1777)
- November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (died 1772)
- December 15 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1742)
- date unknown
- William Bradford, American revolutionary and printer (d. 1791)
- Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d. 1793)
- Thomas Sheridan, Irish actor (d. 1788)
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Tikhon Streshnev, Russian boyar (born 1649)
- March 1 - Richard Ingoldesby, British soldier and colonial governor
- April 7 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (born 1651)
- April 15 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born 1635)
- April 21 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1640)
- May 17 - Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, Swedish witch hunter (born 1645)
- May 29 - Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge
- June 17 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (born 1672)
- July 5
- Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (born 1641)
- Samuel Schotten, rabbi (born 1644)
- July 17 - Elinor James, British pamphleteer (born 1644)
- July 22 - Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (born 1654)
- September 7 - John Harris (writer), English writer (born c.1666)
- September 21 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (born 1647)
- September 27 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
- October 27 - François Baert, Belgian hagiographer (born 1651)
- November 8 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born 1652)
- December 2 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born 1634)
- November 26 - John Hudson, English classical scholar (born 1662)
- December 31 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born 1646)
- date unknown
- Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (born 1667)
- Robert Clicquot, French organ builder (born 1645)
- André Raison, French composer and organist (born 1650)
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