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1819

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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

Events

January 17 - Simon Bolivar proclaims the Republic of Colombia
February 6 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore
June 20 - First steam-propelled vessel (the Savannah) to cross the Atlantic arrives in Liverpool from Savannah, Georgia
August 16 - Peterloo massacre in Manchester, UK

Births

February 11 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer.
February 14 - Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of the United States of America"
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
September 13 - Clara Schumann, Austrian composer
November 22 - George Eliot, British novelist

Deaths

Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii

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