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

• January 17 - Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia
• February 6 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore
• February 17 - The United States House of Representatives passes the 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:

Births

• February 11 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman[?], composer.
• February 14 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of the United States of America"
• February 22 - James Russell Lowell, poet and essayist
• May 24 - Queen Victoria - monarch of the United Kingdom
• May 31 - Walt Whitman, American poet
• June 20 - Jacques Offenbach, composer
• August 1 - Richard Dadd, insane Victorian fairy painter
• 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 23 - Oliver Perry, American naval officer
• Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii