1719
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Years: 1716 1717 1718 - 1719 - 1720 1721 1722 |
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Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s |
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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1719 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
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Events
- January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire
- April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe
- June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel
- Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census
- Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine
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Ongoing events
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Births
- November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
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Deaths
- January 12 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646)
- 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)
- June 17 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (b. 1672)
- July 5 - Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (b. 1641)
- September 7 - John Harris, English writer
- September 21 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647)
- September 27 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (b. 1662)
- 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)
- Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)