1719

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Year 1719 (MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January 23: Liechtenstein.

June 10: Battle of Glen Shiel.

January–June

• January 23
  • The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
  • The Riksdag of the Estates recognizes Ulrika Eleonora's claim to the Swedish throne, after she has agreed to sign a new Swedish constitution. Thus, she is recognized as Queen regnant of Sweden.
• 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 Ösel 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.

Date unknown

• 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).
• Thomas Elfe, born in 1719 was a successful colonial period furniture craftsman in Charleston, South Carolina.

Births

• January 2 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
• January 3
  • Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (d. 1773)
  • Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1802)
• 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, 1st Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
• March 13 – John Griffin, 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 mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
• August 20
  • Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
  • Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)
• 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, German/Austrian composer. Father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Maria Anna Mozart (Nannerl). (d. 1787)
• November 23 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)
• November 30 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
• December 15 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1742)
• date unknown
  • William Bradford, American revolutionary and printer (d. 1791)
  • Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d. 1793)
  • Thomas Sheridan, Irish actor (d. 1788)

Deaths

• January 15 – Tikhon Streshnev, Russian boyar (b. 1649)
• March 1 – Richard Ingoldesby, British soldier and colonial governor
• April 7 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer (b. 1651)
• April 15 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
• April 21 – Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1640)
• May 17 – Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, Swedish witch hunter (b. 1645)
• May 29 – Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge
• June 17 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
• July 5
  • Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
  • Samuel Schotten, rabbi (b. 1644)
• July 17 – Elinor James, British pamphleteer (b. 1644)
• July 22 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1654)
• August 8 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• September 7 – John Harris, English writer (b. c.1666)
• September 21 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• September 27 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
• October 27 – François Baert, Belgian hagiographer (b. 1651)
• November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• December 2 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• November 26 – John Hudson, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
• December 31 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
• date unknown
  • Robert Clicquot, French organ builder (b. 1645)
  • André Raison, French composer and organist (b. 1650)
  • Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Swedish General (b. 1659)

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