[caption id=“attachment_160” align=“alignright” width=“388”] SS Savannah in 1819[/caption] In the year 1819, Spain cedes Florida to the United States in exchange for the American renunciation of any claims on Texas and for $5 million (Feb 22), all onboard the French slave ship Le Rodeur become blind during the voyage over Atlantic, and consequently all of the slaves are thrown overboard (Apr 6), the SS Savannah leaves Georgia to become the first steamship to cross Atlantic, arriving at Liverpool on June 20 (May 22),  Columbia acquires independence from Spain under the leadership of Simón Bolívar (Aug 7),  Museo del Prado opens in Madrid (Nov 19) - and all these fine people were born:

1819-0106 Baldassare Verazzi*  painter - Caprezzo, Piedmont, Italy (1886/67) 1819-0107 Iisak Aspinen** father of Juho Iisakinpoika Aspinen - Kaipola, Viipuri, GD of Finland (1874/55) 1819-0208 John Ruskin* art critic/philanthropist - London, England (1900/80) 1819-0220 Alfred Escher* politician/business leader/railroad pioneer - Zürich, Switzerland (1882/63) 1819-0222 James Russell Lowell* poet/editor/diplomat - Cambridge, MA USA (1891/72) 1819-0314 Erik Edlund* physicist/meteorologist - Närke, Sweden (1888/69) 1819-0321 Henrik August Reinholm* clergyman/ethnologist - Rauma, GD of Finland (1883/64) 1819-0328 Hampus Julius Oldenburg* entrepreneur/founder of a match factory in Finland - Stockholm, Sweden (1876/56) 1819-0414 Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey* educator/author/ publisher - Cavendish, VT USA (1901/82) 1819-0418 Franz von Suppé* composer - Spalato (Split), Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (1895/76) 1819-0516 Johann Voldemar Hannsen* Estonian journalist/poet - Vändra, Livonia, Russian Empire (1890/61) 1819-0524 Queen Victoria* House of Hanover/reign of 63 years - Kensington Palace, London, England (1901/81) 1819-0527 Julia Ward Howe* author/social activist - New York City, NY USA (1910/91) 1819-0531 Walt Whitman* poet/essayist/journalist - West Hills, NY USA (1892/72) 1819-0605 John Couch Adams* mathematician/ astronomer - Launceston, Cornwall, England (1892/72) 1819-0612 Charles Kingsley* priest/social reformer - Devon, England (1875/55) 1819-0620 Jacques Offenbach* French composer - Cologne, Germany (1880/61) 1819-0709 Elias Howe* inventor of the modern lockstitch sewing machine - Spencer, MA USA (1867/48) 1819-0719 Gottfried Keller* poet/writer - Zürich, Switzerland (1890/70) 1819-0801 Herman Melville* novelist (Moby Dick)/poet - New York City, NY USA (1891/72) 1819-0805 Valdemar Knudsen* publisher/sugarcane plantation pioneer on west Kauai, Hawaii - Kristiansand, Norway (1898/78) 1819-0809 William T. G. Morton* dentist/ pioneering physician - Charlton, MA USA (1868/48) 1819-0810 1819-0825 Allan Pinkerton* detective/spy - Glasgow, Scotland (1884/64) 1819-0826 Albert (Prince consort of Queen Victoria)* Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Saxon Duchy (1861/42) 1819-0826 Hinrich Johannes Rink* geologist/a pioneer of glaciology/notable for Greenland’s development - Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark (1893/74) 1819-0828 1819-0830 Wilson Armistead* Quaker merchant/ abolitionist/author - Leeds, England (1868/48) 1819-0913 Clara Schumann* pianist/composer - Leipzig, Germany (1896/76) 1819-0923 Hippolyte Fizeau* physicist - Paris, France (1896/76) 1819-1002 Théonie Rivière Mignot* businesswoman/ restauranter - Philadelphia, PA USA (1875/56) 1819-1103 Harry Goodsir* physician/ naturalist/explorer - Anstruther, Fife, Scotland (disappeared 1848/c.28) 1819-1109 Annibale de Gasparis* - Bugnara, Abruzzo, Italy (1892/72) 1819-1122 George Eliot* (b Mary Anne Evans) novelist/translator - Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England (1880/61) 1819-1122 Joseph Seligman* German-American banker/businessman - Baiersdorf, Bavaria, Germany (1880/60) 1819-1208 Carl Frans Gabriel von Haartman* personal physician of Aleksandra Fjodorovna, wife of tsar Nikolai I - Turku, GD of Finland (1888/68) 1819-1210 Felice Orsini* revolutionary/leader of the Carbonari - Meldola, Romagna, Papal States (1858/38) 1819-1212 Erik Bisi* poet/journalist - Liminka, GD of Finland (1868/48) 1819-1212 Peter W. Gray* lawyer/ judge/legislator active in Texas - Fredericksburg, VA USA(1874/54) 1819-0 1819-0 1819-0 Updated 2025-0223 Helsinki Search for another year here