* 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 )

* 1736 – James Watt, Scottish inventor ( d. 1819 )

James Watt, FRS, FRSE ( 19 January 173625 August 1819 ) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

About the same time, innovators like Eli Whitney ( 1765 – 1825 ), James Watt ( 1736 – 1819 ), and Matthew Boulton ( 1728 – 1809 ) developed elements of technical production such as standardization, quality-control procedures, cost-accounting, interchangeability of parts, and work-planning.

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.

She died on February 7, 1825, shortly after the birth of their third child ( Susan b. 1819, Charles b. 1823, James b. 1825 ).

* August 12 – James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist ( b. 1819 )

* January 19 – James Watt, Scottish inventor ( d. 1819 )

Indeed, an early major American economic crisis, the Panic of 1819, was described by then-president James Monroe as " a depression ", and the economic crisis immediately preceding the 1930s depression, the Depression of 1920 – 21, was referred to as a " depression " by president Calvin Coolidge.

Memphis was founded in 1819 by John Overton, James Winchester and Andrew Jackson.

James Caldwell, a patenee of the Town of Caldwell, donated land within the hamlet to serve as the county seat beginning in 1819.

* Dr. James C. Hawthorne ( 1819 – 1881 ), established and oversaw Portland, Oregon's Hospital for the Insane

* James Russell Lowell ( 1819 – 1891 ), poet, critic, publisher, abolitionist, Harvard professor, and foreign diplomat

* James Watt ( 1736 – 1819 ) student of Joseph Black ; engineer, inventor ( see Watt steam engine )

Evergreen was founded officially in 1819 when Revolutionary War veteran James Cosey and several other men settled within the present limits of the city.

* James Brown Mason ( 1775 – 1819 ), two-term US Congressman for Rhode Island ; born in Thompson

It was incorporated on February 19, 1818 ( or 1819 ), following a petition made in November 1816 by James Leach and 37 others.

In 1997, Brian's 1951 opera in eight scenes The Cenci, based on the 1819 play by Percy Bysshe Shelley, was premiered in a concert performance by the Millennium Sinfonia, conducted by James Kelleher, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

" James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his memoirs written in 1812 and published in 1819.

James Cockburn, ( February 13, 1819 – August 14, 1883 ) was a Canadian Conservative politician, and a father of Canadian Confederation.

It met in the Old Brick Capitol in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819, during the first two years of James Monroe's presidency.

** James Barbour ( DR ), elected February 15, 1819

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821, during the third and fourth years of James Monroe's presidency.

* President pro tempore: James Barbour, ( DR ), until December 26, 1819

** James Pleasants ( DR ), from December 10, 1819