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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1719
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Events from the year 1719 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 17 January –
Samuel Enderby,
whale oil merchant, sponsor of Arctic exploration (died 1797)
- 22 January –
Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (died 1769)
- 23 January –
John Landen, mathematician (died 1790)
- 13 February –
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (died 1792)
- 4 March –
George Pigot, Baron Pigot, governor of Madras (died 1777)
- 13 March –
John Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, field marshal (died 1797)
- 29 March –
John Hawkins, author (died 1789)
- 9 April –
Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1804)
- 30 May –
Roger Newdigate, politician (died 1806)
- 23 July –
Frances Boscawen, diarist and
bluestocking (died 1805)
- 11 August –
George Augustus Selwyn, Member of Parliament (died 1791)
- 6 September –
Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (died 1754)
- 4 November –
James Cawthorn, poet and schoolmaster (died 1761)
Deaths
- 18 January –
Samuel Garth, physician and poet (born 1661)
- 1 March –
Richard Ingoldesby, soldier and colonial governor
- 31 May –
Edmund Dunch, Whig politician (born 1657)
- 17 June –
Joseph Addison, writer and politician (born 1672)
- 23 June –
Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer and Member of Parliament (born 1684)
- 17 July –
Elinor James, pamphleteer (born 1644)
- 7 September –
John Harris, encyclopaedist (born c. 1666)
- 27 September –
George Smalridge, Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)
- 22 November –
William Talman, architect (born 1650)
- 26 November –
John Hudson, classical scholar (born 1662)
- 31 December –
John Flamsteed, astronomer (born 1646)
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Benjamin Hornigold, pirate, shipwrecked (born 1680)
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