1719

1719 (MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday 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. As of the start of 1719, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century 18th century 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
Years:	1716 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722

1719 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1719 MDCCXIX
Ab urbe condita	2472
Armenian calendar	1168 ԹՎ ՌՃԿԸ
Assyrian calendar	6469
Balinese saka calendar	1640–1641
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	1640–1641
- Kali Yuga	4819–4820
Holocene calendar	11719
Igbo calendar	719–720
Iranian calendar	1097–1098
Islamic calendar	1131–1132
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 4 (享保４年)
Javanese calendar	1643–1644
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4052
Minguo calendar	193 before ROC 民前193年
Nanakshahi calendar	251
Thai solar calendar	2261–2262
Tibetan calendar	阳土狗年 (male Earth-Dog) 1845 or 1464 or 692     — to — 阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1846 or 1465 or 693

June 10: Battle of Glen Shiel.

Events

• January 23 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created, within the Holy Roman Empire.[1]
• February 3 (January 23 Old Style) – 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), Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war had been declared between France and Spain (from December 1718).
• April 25 – Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
• April – The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain.
• May 14 – In Louisiana (New France), Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.[2]
• 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 – Battle of Francavilla: The Austrians are defeated by the Spanish.
• August – The Swedish coast is devastated by the Imperial Russian Fleet in the Russian Pillage of 1719–21 during the Great Northern War from the summer of 1719 until the Peace of 1721.
• 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 (d. 1677), in an unused part of the copper mine.
• Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green (founded by Henry Raine), opens in Wapping, England.

Births

• January 2 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
• January 3
  • Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian, 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)
• February 6 – Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (d. 1759)
• 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, antiquities collector (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, geologist (d. 1767)
• August 20
  • Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)
  • Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier, diplomat (d. 1781)
• 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)

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

• November 30 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
• December 15 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1790)
• date unknown
  • William Bradford, American revolutionary and printer (d. 1791)
  • Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d. 1793)
  • Thomas Sheridan, Irish actor (d. 1788)
  • Marie Marguerite Bihéron, French anatomist (d. 1795)
  • Thomas Elfe, successful colonial period furniture craftsman in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1775)

Deaths

• January 15 – Tikhon Streshnev, Russian boyar (b. 1649)
• January 16 – Petar Kanavelić, Venetian writer (b. 1637)
• January 17 – Sophie Amalie Moth, royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark (b. 1654)
• January 27 – Ferdinando d'Adda, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1649)
• March 1 – Richard Ingoldesby, British soldier and colonial governor
• March 19 – Isaac Addington, functionary of the colonial government of Massachusetts (b. 1645)
• 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)
• April 29 – Farrukhsiyar, Mughal Emperor (b. 1683)
• May – Anne-Marguerite Petit du Noyer, French journalist (b. 1663)
• May 17 – Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, Swedish witch hunter (b. 1645)
• May 23 – Lucia Wijbrants, Dutch artist (b. 1638)
• May 29
  • Joseph de Jouvancy, French historian (b. 1643)
  • Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge
• May 31 – Edmund Dunch (Whig), English politician (b. 1657)
• June 6 – Louis Ellies Dupin, French ecclesiastical historian (b. 1657)

Joseph Addison

• June 17 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
• June 23 – Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer and Member of Parliament (b. 1684)
• July 5
  • Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
  • Samuel Schotten, German rabbi (b. 1644)
• July 17 – Elinor James, British pamphleteer (b. 1644)
• July 22 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1654)
• July 28 – Arp Schnitger, German organ builder (b. 1648)
• August 5 – Date Tsunamura, Japanese daimyō at the center of the Date Sōdō (b. 1659)
• August 8 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• August 11 – Leonard Goffiné, German Catholic priest and writer (b. 1648)
• September 7 – John Harris, English writer (b. c.1666)
• September 8 – Carlo Cignani, Italian painter of the Bolognese and the Forlivese school (b. 1628)
• September 21 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
• September 27 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
• September 29 – Jean Orry, French economist (b. 1652)
• October 14 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter (b. 1660)
• October 27 – François Baert, Belgian hagiographer (b. 1651)
• November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• November 26 – John Hudson, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
• November 30 – Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (b. 1659)
• December 2 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (b. 1634)
• December 3 – Adriaen Frans Boudewijns, Landscape painter (b. 1644)
• December 28 – Jacob Bobart the Younger, English botanist (b. 1641)
• December 29 – Infante Philip of Spain, Spanish infante (b. 1712)

John Flamsteed

• December 31 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
• date unknown
  • Robert Clicquot, French organ builder (b. 1645)
  • Benjamin Hornigold, English pirate (b. 1680)
  • André Raison, French composer and organist (b. 1650)
  • Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Swedish general (b. 1659)

References

1. "Historical Events for Year 1719 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
2. "Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste", University of Toronto, 2000, webpage:biog-ca-Bienville.