1719

This article is about the year 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 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1719 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1719 MDCCXIX
Ab urbe condita	2472
Armenian calendar	1168 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6469
Bengali calendar	1126
Berber calendar	2669
British Regnal year	5 Geo. 1 – 6 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2263
Burmese calendar	1081
Byzantine calendar	7227–7228
Chinese calendar	戊戌年 (Earth Dog) 4415 or 4355     — to — 己亥年 (Earth Pig) 4416 or 4356
Coptic calendar	1435–1436
Discordian calendar	2885
Ethiopian calendar	1711–1712
Hebrew calendar	5479–5480
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1775–1776
- Shaka Samvat	1641–1642
- Kali Yuga	4820–4821
Holocene calendar	11719
Igbo calendar	719–720
Iranian calendar	1097–1098
Islamic calendar	1131–1132
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 4 (享保４年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4052
Minguo calendar	193 before ROC 民前193年
Thai solar calendar	2261–2262

1719 (MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1719th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 719th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1710s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1719 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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.
• February 29 – King christian the 6th of Denmark appoints Niels Jakobsen as the leader of the first Danish Curling team.
• 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.
• 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)
  • Samuel Enderby, English whale oil merchant known for sponsoring arctic exploration (d. 1797)
• 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)