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October 11 : Philippine Governor-General Bustillo is assassinated. (1904 painting by Félix Resurrección Hidalgo)
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June 10 :
Battle of Glen Shiel .
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.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 8 –
Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-Finnish
Swedish -
Carolean army under the command of
Carl Gustaf Armfeldt across the
Tydal mountains in a
blizzard kills around 3,700 men and cripples a further 600 for life.
[1]
January 23 – The
Principality of Liechtenstein is created, within the
Holy Roman Empire .
[2]
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.
February 28 –
Farrukhsiyar , the
Mughal Emperor of
India since 1713, is deposed by the
Sayyid brothers , who install
Rafi ud-Darajat in his place. In prison, Farrukhsiyar is strangled by assassins on April 19.
March 6 – A serious earthquake (estimated magnitude >7) in El Salvador results in large fractures, liquefaction zones, and a sulphuric gas leak. It destroys houses, churches and monasteries.
[3]
March 17 – The coronation of
Ulrika Eleonora as
Queen of Sweden takes place in Stockholm.
April–June
April 4 – The French army under
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain, with 20,000 troops crossing into Navarre.
[4]
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 (since December
1718 ).
April 25 –
Daniel Defoe publishes
Robinson Crusoe .
April 26 – King
Philip V of Spain departs Madrid and leads 15,000 men of the Spanish Army into Navare to fight the French under Berwick.
[5]
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.
[6]
May 25 – An earthquake in Turkey damages İzmit and Istanbul, damaging some city walls and ruining mosques and palaces.
[7]
June 4 –
Battle of Ösel Island : A Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.
June 18 – Captain John Perry fixes
Dagenham Breach .
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.
June 30 – French forces under the
Duke of Berwick open the
Siege of San Sebastian
July–September
July 11 –
Russia 's
Baltic Sea fleet is first spotted from the Swedish coast, starting the
Russian Pillage of 1719–21 as part of the
Great Northern War .
July 16 – The
Carlsten fortress in Sweden surrenders to a Danish and Norwegian force
after a siege of seven days . Colonel
Henrich Danckwardt , who surrendered the fortress to
Peter Tordenskjold after being away from it while it was still defensible, is beheaded on September 16.
August 13 – In the
Battle of Stäket , Crown Prince
Frederick I of Sweden leads the successful defense of
Stockholm from Russian Admiral
Fyodor Apraksin 's
Baltic Fleet during the
Russian Pillage .
August 19 –
Siege of San Sebastian . The Spanish garrison surrenders to the Duke of Berwick.
August 20 – Princess
Maria Josepha of Austria , at one time the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria's
Habsburg Empire , marries
Frederick Augustus ,
Elector of Saxony ten days after renouncing any claim to the Austrian throne.
September 3 – The three-story tall
Opernhaus am Zwinger , one of the largest opera houses in the world at the time, opens in
Dresden by staging
Antonio Lotti 's Giovi in Argo .
[8]
September 29 –
Muhammad Shah is crowned as the 12th
Mughal Emperor of India at
Shahjahanabad (now
Delhi ), 12 days after the death of
Shah Jahan II from tuberculosis.
[9]
October–December
October 11 –
Fernando Manuel de Bustillo Bustamante y Rueda , the Spanish
Governor-General of the Philippines , is assassinated in a bloody coup d'etat by supporters of the
Archbishop of Manila , whom Bustamante had imprisoned.
October 14 – The British Army, under the command of Major General
George Wade ,
invades and captures the forts of
Vigo on the Atlantic coast of Spain.
[10]
October 21 – The
Red Canal is opened in the Russian capital,
Saint Petersburg , after seven years of construction, at a ceremony in the presence of the Tsar
Peter the Great .
[11]
October 28 –
Sweden and
Denmark sign an armistice, halting combat in the
Great Northern War between them, with final terms agreed to in the
Treaty of Frederiksborg on July 3, 1720.
[12]
November 9 – In
a treaty between Sweden and Hanover at the close of the
Great Northern War , Sweden cedes the
Duchies of Bremen and Verden (in northern Germany) to Hanover.
December 22 –
Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury , Pennsylvania's first newspaper.
Date unknown
Births
Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born
2 January
Guillaume de Barrême de Châteaufort born
6 January
Joseph Liesganig born
13 February
Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger born
18 February
John Hawkins born
29 March
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim born
2 April
Reza Qoli Mirza Afshar born
5 April
Christian Gottfried Krause born
17 April
Charlotte of Monaco born
19 May
Julia von Mengden born
22 May
Giuseppe Toaldo born
11 July
Frances Boscawen born
23 July
Johann Gottlob Lehmann born
4 August
Robert Glynn born
5 August
Itakura Katsuzumi born
13 August
Louis-Alexandre de Cessart born
25 August
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner born
27 September
François Poulletier de la Salle born
30 September
Leopold Mozart born
14 November
Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf born
23 November
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha born
30 November
George Campbell born
25 December
January
February
February 2 –
Edward Coke, Viscount Coke , British politician (d.
1753 )
February 4 –
Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorf , German politician (d.
1769 )
February 6 –
Alberto Pullicino , Maltese painter (d.
1765 )
February 10 –
Clemente Sibiliato , Italian cleric (d.
1795 )
February 11 –
Vasilije Božičković , Eparch of Križevci (d.
1785 )
February 13
February 14 –
David Doig , writer (d.
1800 )
February 15
February 18 –
Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger , German physician (d.
1772 )
February 19 –
Arthur Blennerhassett , Anglo-Irish politician (d.
1799 )
February 20
February 22 –
Joshua Thomas , Historian of Welsh Baptists (d.
1797 )
February 23 –
Moses Mather , American clergyman (d.
1806 )
February 27 –
Alejandro González Velázquez , Spanish architect and painter (d.
1772 )
March
March 1 –
Daniel Thurston , American army officer (d.
1805 )
March 4 –
George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot , British governor of Madras (d.
1777 )
March 6
March 10 –
Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médard , French economist (d.
1801 )
March 13 –
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden , British nobleman and soldier (d.
1797 )
March 16 –
Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp , Prussian lieutenant-general, Imperial Russian field marshal (d.
1763 )
March 17 –
Gabriel Podoski , Catholic archbishop (d.
1777 )
March 23 –
Anna Catharina Bischoff , Lady (or mummy) of the Barfüsser Church (d.
1787 )
March 26 –
Lubbert Jan van Eck , Dutch noble (d.
1765 )
March 29 –
John Hawkins , English author and music historian (d.
1789 )
March 30 –
John Wentworth , American jurist, soldier, leader of the American Revolution in New Hampshire (d.
1781 )
April
April 2
April 3
April 4 –
Mary Draper , American revolutionary character (d.
1810 )
April 5
April 8 –
Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery , Irish politician, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons (d.
1806 )
April 9 –
Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet , British politician and barrister (d.
1804 )
April 11 –
Jakob Friedrich Heusinger , German classical philologist (d.
1778 )
April 13 –
John Breynton , Welsh missionary and minister (d.
1799 )
April 16
April 17
April 19 –
William Banks , British politician (d.
1761 )
April 22 –
Jacques Rochette de La Morlière , French writer (d.
1785 )
April 24 –
Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti , Italian-born English literary critic and author (d.
1789 )
April 28 –
Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet , British politician (d.
1766 )
May
May 5 –
Andrew Meikle , Scottish engineer (d.
1811 )
May 6 –
Jean Baptiste Christy de La Pallière , French Navy officer (d.
1787 )
May 8 –
Nicholas Dias Abeysinghe , ceylonese Dutch colonial administrator (d.
1794 )
May 17 –
Bjarni Pálsson , Icelandic doctor (d.
1779 )
May 19
May 20 –
Roger Newdigate , English politician, antiquities collector (d.
1806 )
May 22
May 24 –
Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina , Irish Baron (d.
1804 )
May 27 –
Henri-Joseph Dulaurens , French writer (d.
1793 )
May 29 –
Lorenzo De Caro , Italian painter (d.
1777 )
May 31 –
Robert Rutherfurd , Scottish merchant, Baron of the Russian Empire (d.
1794 )
June
June 2 –
Michel-Jean Sedaine , French dramatist and librettist (d.
1797 )
June 3 –
Louis Paul Abeille , economist (d.
1807 )
June 5 –
Domenico Orsini d'Aragona , Italian cardinal (d.
1789 )
June 10
June 11 –
François-Charles de Velbrück , Roman Catholic bishop (d.
1784 )
June 17 –
Joshua Parry , Welsh nonconformist minister and writer (d.
1776 )
June 19 –
Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet , British politician (d.
1794 )
June 28 –
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul , French general, diplomat, statesman (d.
1785 )
July
August
August 4 –
Johann Gottlob Lehmann , German and Russian mineralogist (d.
1767 )
August 5 –
Robert Glynn , British doctor (d.
1800 )
August 7
August 10 –
Philip Thicknesse , author (d.
1792 )
August 11 –
George Selwyn , British politician (d.
1791 )
August 13 –
Itakura Katsuzumi , Japanese samurai (d.
1769 )
August 18 –
Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor , Irish politician and peer (d.
1781 )
August 19 –
Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec , French soldier, diplomat (d.
1781 )
August 20
August 23 –
Pierre Poivre , French horticulturalist (d.
1786 )
August 25
August 26 –
Carlo Sebastiano Berardi , Italian jurist (d.
1768 )
September
October
October 1 –
John Bligh, 3rd Earl of Darnley , British politician (d.
1781 )
October 3 –
Paul Henry Ourry , British Member of Parliament (d.
1783 )
October 7 –
Jacques Cazotte , French writer (d.
1792 )
October 9 –
Georg Mathias Fuchs , German painter in Denmark (d.
1797 )
October 10 –
Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick , English Earl (d.
1773 )
October 12 –
Ignaz Franz , German priest, hymnwriter (d.
1790 )
October 13 –
Josef Ignaz Mildorfer , Austrian painter (d.
1775 )
October 14 –
John Holker , English Jacobite soldier, industrialist and commercial spy (d.
1786 )
October 18 –
Charles Bulkley , British minister (d.
1797 )
October 20 –
Gottfried Achenwall , German philosopher, historian, economist, jurist, statistician (d.
1772 )
October 23 –
Peter Fenger , Danish merchant (d.
1774 )
October 24
October 25 –
Edward Townshend , Anglican dean of Norwich (d.
1765 )
October 26
October 30 –
Lazzaro Opizio Pallavicino , Italian priest (d.
1785 )
November
December
December 8 –
Andrés Marcos Burriel , historian (d.
1762 )
December 13 –
Thomas Gillespie , North Carolina planter (d.
1797 )
December 15 –
Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d.
1790 )
December 18 –
William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington , British Army general (d.
1779 )
December 25 –
George Campbell , figure of the Scottish Enlightenment (d.
1796 )
December 26 –
Salvatore Maria di Blasi , Italian priest (d.
1814 )
December 27 –
John Phillips , American academic (d.
1795 )
December 28 –
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , French diplomat (d.
1787 )
Deaths
Sophie Amalie Moth died
17 January
Tikhon Streshnev died
26 January
Peeter van Bredael died
9 March
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle died
7 April
Françoise d'Aubigné died
15 April
Peter Petrovich died
19 April
Farrukhsiyar died
28 April
Lucia Wijbrants died
23 May
Rafi ud-Darajat died
6 June
Marie Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans died
21 July
Arp Schnitger died
28 July
Date Tsunamura died
5 August
Shah Jahan II died
18 September
Johannes Jacobus Rau died
18 September
Magdalena Sibylla died
22 September
Margaret Hughes died
1 October
Yamamoto Tsunetomo died
30 November
Philip of Spain died
29 December
John Flamsteed died
31 December
January
January 27 –
William Munroe , Scottish soldier (b.
1625 )
January 3 –
Jacob Toorenvliet , Dutch painter (b.
1640 )
January 5
January 6 –
Richard Hoare , banker, founder of C. Hoare & Co. (b.
1648 )
January 11 –
Mizoguchi Shigemoto , Japanese daimyō (b.
1680 )
January 16 –
Petar Kanavelić , Venetian writer (b.
1637 )
January 17 –
Sophie Amalie Moth , royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark (b.
1654 )
January 18 –
Samuel Garth , British writer (b.
1661 )
January 19 –
Joachim Tielke , German musical instrument maker (b.
1641 )
January 22
January 26 –
Tikhon Streshnev , Russian noble (b.
1644 )
January 27 –
Ferdinando d'Adda , Italian Catholic cardinal (b.
1650 )
February
February 6 –
Köprülüzade Numan Pasha , Ottoman Grand Vizier (b.
1670 )
February 12 –
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt , Swedish general (b.
1659 )
February 14 –
Carl Philipp, Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum , Prussian field Marshal (b.
1650 )
February 15 –
Bernardino Belluzzi , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Camerino (b.
1642 )
February 19
February 22 –
Pakubuwono I of Mataram , Sultan of Mataram (b.
1648 )
February 23 –
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg , German Lutheran clergy (b.
1682 )
February 25 –
Giovanni Maria Casini , Italian composer (b.
1652 )
February 27 –
Johann Ernst, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (b.
1664 )
February 28 –
Boris Sheremetev , Russian noble (b.
1652 )
March
April
April 4 –
Thomas Powys , English politician and judge; (b.
1649 )
April 5 –
Edward Colston , politician (b.
1670 )
April 7 –
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle , French priest, education reformer, saint in the Catholic Church (b.
1651 )
April 14 –
Giovanni Tommaso Rovetta , Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hvar (b.
1632 )
April 15 –
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon , mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (b.
1635 )
April 16 –
Ketevan of Kakheti , princess (batonishvili) of eastern Georgia (b.
1648 )
April 19
April 21
April 24 –
Hyacinthe Robillard d'Avrigny , Jesuit (b.
1675 )
April 27 –
Laurentius Christophori Hornæus , Swedish witch hunter (b.
1645 )
April 28 –
Farrukhsiyar ,
Mughal Emperor (b.
1685 )
May
June
July
August
August 2 –
Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł , Polish prince (b.
1669 )
August 3 –
Johann Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths , Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg (b.
1652 )
August 5 –
Date Tsunamura , Japanese daimyō at the center of the Date Sōdō (b.
1659 )
August 7 –
Richard Farington , English politician (b.
1644 )
August 8 –
Christoph Ludwig Agricola , German painter (b.
1667 )
August 9 –
Charles Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton , English and Scottish politician (b.
1649 )
August 11 –
Leonard Goffiné , German Catholic priest and writer (b.
1648 )
August 14 –
Alexander Grant , Scottish army officer (b.
1674 )
August 18 –
Heinrich von Cocceji , German scholar (b.
1644 )
August 19 –
Carl Hildebrand von Canstein , German theologian, jurist and writer (b.
1667 )
August 30 –
Daniel Cronström , Swedish architect (b.
1655 )
September
October
October 1 –
Margaret Hughes , British actress (b.
1630 )
October 3 –
Johann Gregor Thalnitscher , Carniolan lawyer, scholar of ancient inscriptions, chronicler, historian (b.
1655 )
October 7 –
Pierre Remond de Montmort , French mathematician (b.
1678 )
October 9 –
Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille , French noble (b.
1683 )
October 11
October 14 –
Arnold Houbraken , painter from the Northern Netherlands (b.
1660 )
October 15 –
Jan Mortel , painter from the Northern Netherlands (b.
1652 )
October 25 –
Catharina Wallenstedt , Swedish writer and courtier (b.
1627 )
October 26 –
Laurens van der Meulen , Flemish sculptor (b.
1643 )
October 27 –
François Baert , Belgian hagiographer (b.
1651 )
October 28
November
December
December 2 –
Pasquier Quesnel , French Jansenist theologian (b.
1634 )
December 3 –
Adriaen Frans Boudewijns , Flemish painter and engraver (b.
1644 )
December 8 –
Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve, Count of Samsø , Danish nobleman and admiral (b.
1678 )
December 9 –
Charles Oliphant , British physician (b.
1666 )
December 11
December 15 –
Mitford Crowe , English politician (b.
1669 )
December 24 –
William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin , Irish Earl (b.
1662 )
December 28 –
Jacob Bobart the Younger , English botanist (b.
1641 )
December 29 –
Philip of Spain , Spanish Royal infante (b.
1712 )
December 30 –
Lord James Murray , British politician (b.
1663 )
December 31 –
John Flamsteed , English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal (b.
1646 )
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