* 1819 – Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.

* 1819 – Herman Melville, American writer ( d. 1891 )

* 1819 – Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

* 1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, United Kingdom.

* George V of Hanover ( 1819 – 1878 )

* 1785 – Oliver Hazard Perry, American naval officer ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary ( d. 1874 )

* 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer ( d. 1895 )

Theseus Fighting the Centaur ( 1804 – 1819 ), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

**** House of Bourbon – Molina or Carlist branch ( 1819 – 1936 )

**** House of Bourbon – de Paula branch or Alfonsine branch ( 1819 – present ) ( became Anjou branch in 1933 )

* 1742 – Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist ( d. 1899 )

In 1819 Brewster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with Robert Jameson ( 1774 – 1854 ), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of the Edinburgh magazine.

The first ten volumes ( 1819 – 1824 ) were published under the joint editorship of Brewster and Jameson, the remaining four volumes ( 1825 – 1826 ) being edited by Jameson alone.

* 1751 – Maria Luisa of Parma, Queen consort of Spain ( d. 1819 )

* 1819 – Theodor Fontane, German writer ( d. 1898 )

* 1819 – John W. Geary, 1st Mayor of San Francisco ( d. 1873 )

* 1819 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer ( d. 1870 )

* 1819 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician ( d. 1892 )

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

* 1819 – George Eliot, British novelist ( d. 1880 )

* 1765 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain ( d. 1819 )

After a failed uprising at Grahamstown in 1819, the fifth of the Xhosa Wars, the British colonial government sentenced African leader Makanda Nxele to life imprisonment on the island.

Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.

British expeditions to protect the Indian trade from raiders at Ras al-Khaimah led to campaigns against that headquarters and other harbours along the coast in 1819.

* November 20 – Sir Thomas Fremantle, British captain and politician ( d. 1819 )

It was later sold for £ 45 and five shillings at auction in May 1819 as a " Crocodile in a Fossil State " to Charles Konig, of the British Museum, who had already suggested the name Ichthyosaurus for it.

One party employed by the British North West Company and led by explorer Donald Mackenzie entered Jackson Hole from the west in 1818 or 1819.

Early British expeditions to protect the Indian Ocean trade from raiders at Ras al-Khaimah led to campaigns against that headquarters and other harbours along the coast in 1819.

In May 1819, Captain Arent de Peyster ( or Peyter ) of New York, as captain of the armed brigantine or privateer Rebecca, sailing under British colours, while on a voyage from Valparaíso to India, passed through the southern Tuvalu waters ; de Peyster sighted Nukufetau and Funafuti, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, Edward Ellice, the Member of Parliament for Coventry and the owner of the Rebecca's cargo.

After the death of his brother in 1819, he also became the Jacobite Pretender to the British thrones ( as Victor I ), although he, like his brother, did not make any public claims to this effect.

The United Kingdom passed a Foreign Enlistment Act in 1819, and then the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870, making it unlawful for British subjects to join the armed forces of any state warring with another state at peace with Britain.

It is named in honor of Oliver Hazard Perry ( 1785 – 1819 ), American War of 1812 naval officer who, after his flagship was severely damaged, continued the fight from another ship and forced the surrender of the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie.

* Sir Robert Heron, 2nd Baronet ( 1765 – 1854 ), British Whig politician, Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Great Grimsby 1812 – 18 and Peterborough 1819 – 47

Some home tutoring followed in Bath before he returned to India in 1819 as an ensign in the Bengal Army of the British East India Company.

As a result of conflict in Europe, the British occupied Padang from 1781 to 1784 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and again from 1795 to 1819 during the Napoleonic Wars.

John Couch Adams ( 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892 ) was a British mathematician and astronomer.

In the United Kingdom, following the Peterloo Massacre of August 16, 1819, the British government acted to prevent any future disturbances by the introduction of new legislation, the so-called Six Acts which labelled any meeting for radical reform as " an overt act of treasonable conspiracy ".

The British establishment of Singapore on the Malaya Peninsula in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles exacerbated the tension between the two nations, especially as the Dutch claimed that the treaty signed between Raffles and the Sultan of Johore was invalid, and that the Sultanate of Johore was under the Dutch sphere of influence.

George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby, GCB, GCMG, PC ( 23 July 1819 – 3 April 1890 ), styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863, was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor.

An original printing press for the Penny Black, the D cylinder press invented by Jacob Perkins and patented in 1819, is on display at the British Library in London.

Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro ( 29 October 1819 – 30 March 1885 ) was a British classical scholar.

* Sir John Franklin ( 1786-1847 ) – British explorer, surveyed the coast of the Polar Sea between 1819 and 1824 ; died on his final Arctic expedition in 1845.