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Events:
January 17 -
Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia.
February 6 - Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
February 15 - The United States House of Representatives agrees to Tallmadge Amendment
to bar slaves from new state of Missouri--opening vote in controversy that leads to 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.
Births:
February 11 -
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer.
February 14 -
Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of the United States of America" (Or January 17,
1811).
February 22 -
James Russell Lowell, poet and essayist.
March 7 -
Wouter Volaart.
March 22 -
Triest de Jonge.
April 11 -
Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor.
April 18 -
Franz von Suppé, composer.
April 28 -
Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar.
May 24 -
Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom.
May 31 -
Walt Whitman, American poet.
June 5 -
John Couch Adams, astronomer.
June 20 -
Jacques Offenbach, composer.
August 1 -
Richard Dadd, insane Victorian fairy painter.
August 1 -
Herman Melville, American novelist.
August 26 -
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, later Prince Consort to Queen Victoria.
September 13 -
Clara Schumann, Austrian composer.
September 22 -
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian.
October 4 -
Grietje Boterbloem.
October 7 -
Willemptje van Eesteren.
November 22 -
George Eliot, British novelist.
December 25 -
Anna Timmer.
Deaths:
February 10 -
Pieter van den Houten.
March 6 -
Jacoba Klaasd Hanse.
May 23 -
Jan Pieterse van der Velde.
June 2 -
Krina Jacobse (Crijna Jacobse) Hanse.
July 24 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
August 16 -
Cornelis Vreeswijk.
August 19 -
James Watt, inventor.
August 23 -
Oliver Perry, American naval officer.
September 13 -
Adriaan van den Houten.
Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii.
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