1819
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In 1819 (MDCCCXIX) was the 1819th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 819th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1810s decade.
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Art and culture
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Literature
- In England, Richard Carlile is convicted of blasphemy and sent to prison for publishing The Age of Reason (1794 - 1807) by Thomas Paine.
- L'outrage aux bonnes mœurs
- Article 8 of the law of 17 May 1819 is voted
- In June 1819, les Lois de Serre are voted
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Fiction
- The Vampyre by John William Polidori
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
- November 19 – The Museo del Prado, one of the world's great art galleries, opens in Madrid.
- Paris Salon of 1819
- The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
- The Great Odalisque first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1819
- Roger Freeing Angelica by Ingres
- Saturn Devouring His Son (and other 'Black Paintings') by Francisco de Goya
- King Francis I of Naples 1819 visit to the Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum: the Secret Museum, Naples is installed
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- February 8 – John Ruskin, English writer, artist, and social critic (d. 1900)
- February 22 – James Russell Lowell, American poet, essayist (d. 1891)
- May 24 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
- May 31 – Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
- June 10 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
- June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer (d. 1880)
- July 19 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
- August 1 – Richard Dadd, British painter (d. 1886)
- August 1 – Herman Melville, American novelist (d. 1891)
- August 25 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective (d. 1884)
- August 26 – Prince Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria (d. 1861)
- September 13 – Clara Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1896)
- September 18 – Léon Foucault, French physicist (d. 1868)
- November 22 – George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
- December 30 – Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898)
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Deaths
- January 20 – King Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
- March 10 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (b. 1743)
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