Today in History for Year 1819

Months in Year 1819: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 25 of 25

Jan 16th - Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes governor of Dutch-Indies
Jan 28th - Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore
Feb 6th - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
Feb 19th - British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
Feb 22nd - Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)
Feb 28th - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schäfers Klageleid"
Mar 2nd - Territory of Arkansas organized
Mar 2nd - US passed its 1st immigration law
Apr 2nd - 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
Apr 26th - Odd Fellows Lodge forms
May 21st - 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in US introduced in NYC
May 22nd - 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
Jun 12th - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
Jun 20th - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
Jul 3rd - 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
Jul 4th - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation of 1819 comet
Aug 2nd - 1st parachute jump in US
Aug 6th - Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.
Aug 7th - Battle of Boyacá; Bolívar defeats Spanish in Colombia
Aug 16th - Manchester Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
Sep 6th - Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
Sep 17th - 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
Oct 22nd - 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
Dec 14th - Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
Dec 17th - Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 125

Jan 1st - Arthur Hugh Clough, poet, friend of Matthew Arnold
Jan 1st - George Foster Shepley, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Jan 3rd - Thomas Hill Watts, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1892
Jan 3rd - Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)
Jan 6th - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (d. 1886)
Jan 9th - James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
Jan 12th - Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900
Jan 14th - Fabio Campana, composer
Jan 14th - Frederick Steele, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
Jan 26th - Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball) [or Jun 26]
Feb 1st - Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
Feb 4th - Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA
Feb 8th - John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite)
Feb 10th - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
Feb 11th - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer
Feb 14th - James Green Martin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
Feb 14th - Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter
Feb 18th - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer
Feb 19th - Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer
Feb 20th - Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
Feb 22nd - Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
Feb 22nd - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
Mar 4th - Charles Oberthur, composer
Mar 11th - Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
Mar 11th - Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
Mar 19th - David Henry Williams, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Mar 22nd - William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
Mar 26th - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
Mar 26th - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
Mar 28th - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
Mar 29th - Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive US oil well
Mar 29th - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations)
Mar 31st - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
Apr 4th - Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
Apr 6th - Johann A H Scheler, Belgian librarian
Apr 7th - Hubert Leonard, composer
Apr 14th - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
Apr 18th - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary (d. 1874)
Apr 18th - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (d. 1895)
Apr 28th - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
May 1st - William Steele, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
May 3rd - Nicola De Giosa, composer
May 5th - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
May 15th - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
May 16th - Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
May 17th - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
May 18th - Julius Hopp, composer
May 24th - Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)
May 27th - Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
May 28th - William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
May 30th - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
May 31st - Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
Jun 3rd - Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
Jun 3rd - Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
Jun 5th - John Couch Adams, English astronomer (co-discover Neptune)
Jun 6th - William Howard Glover, composer
Jun 10th - J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
Jun 12th - Charles Kingsley, [Parson Lot], Engl vicar/historian (Westward Ho!)
Jun 14th - Henry J. Gardner, 23rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1892)
Jun 20th - Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
Jun 26th - Abner Doubleday, Mjr Gen (Union)/inventor (baseball) [or 1/26]
Jun 27th - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
Jun 30th - William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
Jul 2nd - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
Jul 3rd - Louis Theodore Gouvy, composer
Jul 4th - Reuben Eaton Fenton, Governor (Union), died in 1885
Jul 8th - Alexander Hays, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Jul 8th - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer
Jul 8th - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
Jul 9th - Elias Howe, Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine
Jul 19th - Gottfried Keller, writer
Jul 20th - Paul Henrion, composer
Moby Dick Author Herman Melville (Aug 1st) Aug 1st - Herman Melville, New York, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), (d. 1891)
Aug 6th - Samuel Powhatan Carter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Aug 8th - Charles Anderson Dana, Asst Secy War, (Union) died in 1897
Aug 9th - William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether (HOF 1920)
Aug 12th - Daniel Davidson Bidwell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
Aug 13th - George Gabriel Stokes, physicist/mathematician (spectroscope)
Aug 17th - James Henry Van Alen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
Aug 18th - Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna, Duchess of Leuchtenberg (d. 1876)
Aug 25th - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
Aug 26th - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria
Sep 6th - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer
Sep 6th - Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic (Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi)
Sep 6th - William Starke Rosecrans, Mjr General (Union volunteers)
Sep 7th - Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland)
Sep 9th - Martin Luther Smith, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
Sep 13th - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
Sep 14th - Henry Jackson Hunt, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
Sep 17th - Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault, physicist (pendulum proved Earth rotates)
Sep 17th - Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st president (Republic South Africa)
Sep 17th - Thomas Andrews Hendricks, (D) 21st US VP; died in office
Sep 21st - Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1864)
Sep 22nd - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
Sep 23rd - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist (d. 1896)
Sep 28th - Jacob G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch vicar/theologist
Oct 2nd - George Washington Getty, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1901
Oct 6th - Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato-flour manufacturer
Oct 9th - Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Oct 10th - Zebulon York, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1900

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 8th - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55
Jan 14th - Peter Pindar, English satirist (b. 1738)
Jan 20th - Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808), dies at 70
Mar 8th - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)
Mar 9th - Janos Fusz, composer, dies at 41
Mar 10th - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer, dies
Mar 16th - Nicolas Sejan, composer, dies at 73
Mar 23rd - August v Kotzebue, writer, dies
May 2nd - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
May 8th - Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819)
May 11th - Caspar Furstenau, composer, dies at 47
May 16th - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
May 22nd - John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84
Jun 26th - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71
Jun 26th - Slome Duikelar, [Abraham J Swalff], Yiddish writer, dies
Jun 30th - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer, dies at 72
Jul 1st - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
Jul 20th - John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies
Jul 24th - Sophie Gail, composer, dies at 43
King of Hawaii Kamehameha I (May 8th) Aug 19th - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
Aug 23rd - Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
Sep 6th - Georg Druschetzky, composer, dies at 74
Sep 7th - Jean-Louis Duport, composer, dies at 69
Sep 8th - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56
Sep 12th - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (b. 1742)
Sep 14th - Erik Acharius, Swedish botanist, dies
Sep 28th - Karl Haack, composer, dies at 68
Sep 30th - Nicolas Roze, composer, dies at 74
Oct 6th - Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardinia (1796-1802)/Jesuit, dies
Oct 13th - Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer, dies at 61
Oct 15th - F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48
Oct 15th - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1744)
Oct 20th - Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer, dies at 66
Nov 5th - Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland, dies at 55
Nov 15th - Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
Dec 5th - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
Dec 9th - Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide
Dec 19th - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
Dec 20th - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer, dies at 50