1719
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1680s 1690s 1700s – 1710s – 1720s 1730s 1740s |
| Years: | 1716 1717 1718 – 1719 – 1720 1721 1722 |
| 1719 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
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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Events of 1719
June 10: Battle of Glen Shiel.
January–June
- January 23 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
- February 20 – The first Treaty of Stockholm is signed.
- April 19 – In Louisiana (New France), Bienville's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war was declared between France and Spain (from December 1718).
- April 25 – Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
- April – French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain.
- May 14 – In Louisiana (New France), at war with Spain, Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.[1]
- June 4 – Battle of Osel Island: A Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.
- June 10 – Battle of Glen Shiel: British forces defeat the Jacobites and their Spanish allies.
- June 20 – Austrians are defeated in the Battle of Francavilla.
July–December
- December 22 – Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.
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.
- Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green, opens in Wapping (opened by Henry Raine).
Ongoing events
- Great Northern War (1700–1721)
- War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720)
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1719 MDCCXIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2472 |
| Armenian calendar | 1168 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԸ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -125 – -124 |
| Bengali calendar | 1126 |
| Berber calendar | 2669 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2263 |
| Burmese calendar | 1081 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7227 – 7228 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊戌年十一月十一日 (4355/4415-11-11) — to —
己亥年十一月廿一日(4356/4416-11-21) |
| Coptic calendar | 1435 – 1436 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1711 – 1712 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5479 – 5480 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1775 – 1776 |
| - 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 (d. 1797)
- January 3
- January 17 – William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
- January 22 – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (d. 1769)
- January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
- January 28 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)
- March 4 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
- March 13 – John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
- April 2 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)
- April 9 – Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1804)
- April 24 – Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (d. 1789)
- May 30 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
- June 28 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)
- July 4 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)
- August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)
- August 20
- August 25 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
- September 6 – Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (d. 1754)
- September 11 – Tanuma Okitsugu, Japanese government official (d. 1788)
- September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)
- October 13 – Marco Coltellini, Italian librettist (d. 1777)
- October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
- October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)
- November 6 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (d. 1803)
- November 14 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)
- November 23 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
- November 30 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
- December 15 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1742)
- date unknown
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
- 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
Notes
- ↑ "Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste", University of Toronto, 2000, webpage: biog-ca-Bienville.