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Everything about 1719 totally explainedYear 1719 ( MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1719
January - June
July - December
December 22 - Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.
Undated
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.
France declares war on Spain.
Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green, opens in Wapping (opened by Henry Raine).
Ongoing events
Great Northern War (1700-1721)
Births
January 2 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (died 1797)
January 3
January 17 - William Vernon, American merchant (died 1806)
January 22 - Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (died 1769)
January 23 - John Landen, English mathematician (died 1790)
January 28 - Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (died 1749)
March 4 - George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (died 1777)
March 13 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (died 1797)
April 2 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (died 1803)
April 9 - Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician (died 1804)
April 24 - Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (died 1789)
May 30 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (died 1806)
June 28 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (died 1785)
July 4 - Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (died 1797)
August 4 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (died 1767)
August 20
August 25 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (died 1795)
September 6 - Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (died 1754)
September 11 - Tanuma Okitsugu, Japanese government official (died 1788)
September 27 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (died 1800)
October 13 - Marco Coltellini, Italian librettist (died 1777)
October 17 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (died 1792)
October 20 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (died 1772)
November 6 - Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (died 1803)
November 14 - Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1787)
November 23 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (died 1777)
November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (died 1772)
December 15 - Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1742)
date unknown
Deaths
January 15 - Tikhon Streshnev, Russian boyar (born 1649)
March 1 - Richard Ingoldesby, British soldier and colonial governor
April 7 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (born 1651)
April 15 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born 1635)
April 21 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1640)
May 17 - Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, Swedish witch hunter (born 1645)
May 29 - Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge
June 17 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (born 1672)
July 5
July 17 - Elinor James, British pamphleteer (born 1644)
July 22 - Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (born 1654)
September 7 - John Harris (writer), English writer (born c.1666)
September 21 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (born 1647)
September 27 - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
October 27 - François Baert, Belgian hagiographer (born 1651)
November 8 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born 1652)
December 2 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born 1634)
November 26 - John Hudson, English classical scholar (born 1662)
December 31 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born 1646)
date unknown
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