Year
The world in 1819
In 1819 the atlas holds 526 states standing across 6 regions. 7 things began that year - Gran Colombia, Bathurst Island and Peterloo Massacre among them - and 2 ended; 40 people were born and 18 died.
Only what Wikidata dates to the year is counted here; a thing dated to its decade is on the 1810s page, and to its century on the 19th century.
What began in 1819
By kind, the best known first; a war or a state is listed in the year it began.
States 3
- Gran Colombia · state · 1819 – 1831
- Caliphate of Hamdullahi · state · 1819 – 1862
- Riau-Lingga Sultanate · state · 1819 – 1911
Wars and battles 1
- Battle of Boyacá · battle · 1819
Unrest and atrocity 2
- Peterloo Massacre · atrocity · 1819
- Hep-Hep riots · atrocity · 1819
Works and ideas 1
- Bathurst Island · discovery · 1819
What ended in 1819
States that fell or were replaced, and wars and other things that ran past the year they began.
States 2
- Mexicans · state · 1811 – 1819
- Shaki Khanate · state · 1743 – 1819
Born and died
By how many Wikipedias write about them.
Born in 1819 40
- Queen Victoria · monarch · 1819 – 1901
- Walt Whitman · poet · 1819 – 1892
- George Eliot · philosopher · 1819 – 1880
- Herman Melville · poet · 1819 – 1891
- John Ruskin · philosopher · 1819 – 1900
- Jacques Offenbach · composer · 1819 – 1880
- Báb · religious leader · 1819 – 1850
- Gustave Courbet · sculptor · 1819 – 1877
- Theodor Fontane · poet · 1819 – 1898
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha · painter · 1819 – 1861
- Stanisław Moniuszko · composer · 1819 – 1872
- Maria II of Portugal · ruler · 1819 – 1853
- Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst · politician · 1819 – 1901
- George V of Hanover · composer · 1819 – 1878
- Panteleimon Kulish · poet · 1819 – 1897
- Allan Pinkerton · writer · 1819 – 1884
and 24 more in the atlas.
Died in 1819 18
- James Watt · inventor · 1736 – 1819
- Charles IV of Spain · ruler · 1748 – 1819
- Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher · military officer · 1742 – 1819
- Charles Emmanuel IV · monarch · 1751 – 1819
- Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier · politician · 1742 – 1819
- Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne · revolutionary · 1756 – 1819
- Alexander Tormasov · politician · 1752 – 1819
- Bodawpaya · monarch · 1745 – 1819
- Oliver Hazard Perry · military officer · 1785 – 1819
- Johann Peter Beaulieu · military officer · 1725 – 1819
- Johann von Klenau · military officer · 1758 – 1819
- Mariano Osorio · politician · 1777 – 1819
- Johann von Hiller · person · 1754 – 1819
- Alexander Mavrocordatos Firaris · ruler · 1754 – 1819
- Antonio González de Balcarce · politician · 1774 – 1819
- William Cornwallis · politician · 1744 – 1819
and 2 more in the atlas.
Standing in 1819
The states the atlas holds as standing that year, by region, the best known first, with who held the highest office where the record dates it.
Europe130 states
- France · 481 – present
- Spain · 1516 – present · Ferdinand VII, Monarch of Spain since 1814
- Sweden · 900 – present · Charles XIV John, Monarch of Sweden since 1818
- Denmark · 800 – present · Frederick VI of Denmark, Monarch of Denmark since 1808
- Luxembourg · 1815 – present · William I of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg since 1815
- Andorra · 1278 – present · Bernat Francés Caballero i Mathet, Episcopal Co-Prince since 1817
- Monaco · 1297 – present
- Liechtenstein · 1806 – present · Johann I Joseph of Liechtenstein, Prince of Lichtenstein since 1805
- San Marino · 301 – present
- Hamburg · 1814 – 1870
and 120 more; every state of Europe.
Middle East and North Africa68 states
- Morocco · 1549 – present
- Ottoman Empire · 1302 – 1922 · Mahmud II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire since 1808
- Persian Empire · 550 BCE – 1979 CE
- Ethiopian Empire · 1270 – 1975 · Iyoas II, Emperor of Ethiopia since 1818
- Qajar dynasty · 1785 – 1925 · Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, shah since 1797
- Khanate of Khiva · 1511 – 1920 · Mohammed Rahim Khan, khan since 1806
- Funj Sultanate · 1505 – 1821 · Badi VII, Sultan of Sennar since 1805
- Ottoman Egypt · 1517 – 1867 · Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Beylerbey of Egypt since 1805
- Sokoto Caliphate · 1804 – 1903
- Qajar Iran · 1789 – 1925
and 58 more; every state of Middle East and North Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa43 states
- Dahomey · 1600 – 1894
- Kingdom of Kongo · 1395 – 1888 · Garcia V of Kongo, Manikongo since 1803
- Asante Empire · 1670 – 1902
- Cape Colony · 1795 – 1910 · George III, King/Queen since 1795
- Kingdom of Benin · 1170 – 1897
- Buganda · 1420 – 1966 · Kamaanya of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda since 1814
- Zulu Kingdom · 1816 – 1897 · Shaka Zulu, king since 1816
- Oyo Empire · 1400 – 1905
- Imerina · 1540 – 1897 · Radama I, King of Imerina since 1810
- Lunda Empire · 1665 – 1884
and 33 more; every state of Sub-Saharan Africa.
South Asia164 states
- Mughal Empire · 1526 – 1857 · Akbar II, Mughal emperor since 1806
- Sikh Empire · 1733 – 1849 · Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of Punjab, Kashmir and Jammu since 1801
- Durrani Empire · 1747 – 1826 · Ayub Shah Durrani, Shah of the Durrani Empire since 1819
- Kazakh Khanate · 1458 – 1847
- Khanate of Kokand · 1709 – 1876
- Kingdom of Mysore · 1399 – 1950
- Emirate of Bukhara · 1785 – 1920 · Haydar bin Shahmurad, Amir since 1799
- Hyderabad State · 1724 – 1948 · Asaf Jah III of Hyderabad, 1st Nizam of Hyderabad since 1803
- French India · 1668 – 1954
- Travancore · 1729 – 1949 · Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore since 1813 and Gowri Parvati Bayi, Maharaja of Travancore since 1815
and 154 more; every state of South Asia.
East and Southeast Asia70 states
- Brunei · 1368 – present · Muhammad Kanzul Alam, Sultan of Brunei Darussalam since 1807
- Qing dynasty · 1616 – 1912 · Jiaqing Emperor, Emperor of China since 1796
- Chiang Mai · 1775 – 1884 · Thammalangka, Prince of Chiang Mai since 1816
- Dutch East Indies · 1800 – 1949
- Joseon · 1392 – 1897 · Sunjo of Joseon, king of Joseon Dynasty since 1800
- Kelantan · 1762 – 1904
- Negeri Sembilan · 1775 – 1894
- Tokugawa shogunate · 1603 – 1867
- Champa · 192 – 1832
- Ryukyu Kingdom · 1429 – 1879
and 60 more; every state of East and Southeast Asia.
Americas and Oceania25 states
- United States · 1776 – present · James Monroe, President of the United States since 1817
- Chile · 1810 – present
- Colombia · 1810 – present · Simón Bolívar, President of Colombia since 1819
- Paraguay · 1811 – present
- Haiti · 1804 – present · Jean-Pierre Boyer, President of Haiti since 1818
- Greenland · 1734 – 1940
- Gran Colombia · 1819 – 1831 · Simón Bolívar, President of Colombia since 1819
- Hawaiian Kingdom · 1795 – 1895 · Kamehameha I, king since 1795 and Kamehameha II, king since 1819
- Mexicans · 1811 – 1819
- United Provinces of the Río de la Plata · 1810 – 1831
and 15 more; every state of Americas and Oceania.
Location unknown26 states
- Kuba Kingdom · 1625 – 1900
- Kaarta · 1753 – 1854
- Baban · 1600 – 1847
- Kingdom of Kakongo · 1500 – 1885
- Ngoyo · 1500 – 1885
- Imamate of Futa Jallon · 1725 – 1912
- Kingdom of Sine · 1350 – 1969
- Soran Emirate · 1530 – 1835 · Mir Muhammad of Rawanduz, Mir of Soran since 1814
- Savoyard state · 1003 – 1861 · Victor Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy since 1802
- Gaekwad dynasty · 1721 – 1947
and 16 more; every state of Location unknown.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1794 – 1844: every state, war and life of 1819 and the years either side, region by region.
- On the map in 1819: the borders of the year, its cities under their names of the year, and what happened where.
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