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

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 )

* 1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.

* 1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

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

The most notable contributions to this idea of Robin are Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry's ( 1825 ) and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe ( 1819 ).

Singapore became numerically dominated by immigrant ethnic groups soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post on the island in 1819.

Arthur Schopenhauer referred to one of Sir William Jones's publications in § 1 of The World as Will and Representation ( 1819 ).

* February 1 – Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist ( b. 1819 )

** Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer ( b. 1819 )

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

Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory ( 1819 – 1905 ).

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

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

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.

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet ( 26 September 1819 – 13 April 1901 ) was an English railway chairman and politician.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS (; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903 ), was a mathematician and physicist.

* 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.

In 1818 he exhibited a portrait of Sir Francis Chantrey, R. A., and, in 1819, one of the poet George Crabbe.

* 1819 ( July ) Sir Joseph Banks met with Perkins.

In April 1819, Sismondi married a Welshwoman, Jessie Allen ( 1777 – 1853 ), whose sister, Catherine Allen, was the wife of Sir James Mackintosh and another sister, Elizabeth Allen, was the wife of Josiah Wedgwood II and mother of Emma Wedgwood.