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* 1819 Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
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.
Singapore became numerically dominated by immigrant ethnic groups soon after Sir Stamford Raffles established a trading post on the island in 1819.
On the island of Anglesey a new embankment across the Stanley Sands to Holyhead was constructed, but the crossing of the Menai Strait was the most formidable challenge, overcome by the Menai Suspension Bridge ( 1819 1826 ).
Born on the island of Nantucket of the Massachusetts coast, Nickerson made his first sea voyage in 1819, at the age of fourteen, on the ill-fated whaler Essex.
Between 1819 and 1829, the British built Fort Lennox on an island of the Richelieu River, near the Canada-U. S. border, to prevent against possible attacks from Americans after the War of 1812.
There was an Öland County in the short period between 1819 and 1826 ; otherwise, the island has been part of Kalmar County since 1634.
John Whitehead had been stranded in Key West after a shipwreck in 1819 and he had been impressed by the potential offered by the deep harbor of the island.
In 1819 he was forced to leave the island due to ill health and returned to London on board the Lady Raffles.
Somerville Island ( 74 ° 44 ' N, 96 ° 10 ' W ), a small island in Barrow Strait, Nunavut, was named after her by Sir William Edward Parry in 1819 during the first of the four Arctic expeditions under his command.
The island was first claimed for Britain on 16 October 1819, formally annexed by Britain as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies in 1908, and now as part of the separate British Antarctic Territory.
The island was discovered and named by the British explorer William Smith in 1819.
William Edward Parry was the first European to sight the island in 1819.
Isma ' il Ragheb was of Greek ancestry and was born in Greece on 18 August 1819 on either the island of Chios following the great Massacre or Candia Crete.
William Edward Parry was the first European to discover the island in 1819, charting its southern coast.
Enroute, the ship made an extended stopover in the Dutch settlement of Batavia, on the island of Java, then part of the colonial Dutch East Indies ( present day Indonesia ), in March, 1819.
On 17 January 1819 the island was re-discovered by British Capt.
On 2 March 1819, Captain Henry King, sailing aboard the Elizabeth, landed on the island to find the king's colours already flying.
This island was known to sealers as early as 1819, and the name Livingston, although of unknown derivation, has been well established in international usage since the 1820s.
Saint-Paul was occasionally visited by explorers, fishermen, and seal hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries, among which was the American sealer General Gates, which called at the island in April 1819.
The island was named for Cook by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, which explored the South Sandwich Islands in 1819 20.
It was discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named the island Visokoi (" high ") because of its conspicuous height.
The island was named after Sir Thomas Byam Martin by Sir William Edward Parry in August 1819 during his first expedition to discover the Northwest Passage.
William Edward Parry was the first European to sight the island in 1819.

1819 and Funafuti
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.
Funafuti was named Ellice's Island after Edward Ellice, a British politician and merchant, by Captain Arent de Peyster, who sighted the islands in 1819 sailing on the ship Rebecca.

1819 and was
The struggle was resolved in 1819 in the Supreme Court in one of the most intriguing cases in our judicial history.
Abner Doubleday ( June 26, 1819 January 26, 1893 ) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.
As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.
The name " alkaloids " () was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl F. W.
Kern & Co., founded in 1819, was an internationally known geodetic instrument manufacturer based in Aarau.
Antares B can be observed with a small telescope for a few seconds during lunar occultations while Antares itself is hidden by the Moon ; it was discovered by Johann Tobias Bürg during one such occultation on April 13, 1819.
The monument was given by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1819 in recognition of the battle of 1798 and the campaign of 1801 but not erected on the Victoria Embankment until 1878.
The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Karl Morgenstern in his university lectures, and later famously reprised by Wilhelm Dilthey, who legitimized it in 1870 and popularized it in 1905.
The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.
The first established use of the term in a political context was by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1819, following the French Revolution.
An early example, which is today known as an opium clipper, was the Transit of 1819.
In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the College's royal charter to make the school a public university.
In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his " Anger of Achilles " ( also known as the " Sacrifice of Iphigenie "; the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.
The power delegated to the federal government was significantly expanded by the Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland ( 1819 ), amendments to the Constitution following the Civil War, and by some later amendments — as well as the overall claim of the Civil War, that the states were legally subject to the final dictates of the federal government.
A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.
This occasion was productive of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) and Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ).
Gustave de Molinari ( 3 March 1819 28 January 1912 ) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.
Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Spain, nearly bankrupt from the war with France and the reconstruction of the country, was unable to pay her soldiers, and in 1819 was forced to sell Florida to the United States for 5 million dollars.
Herman Melville ( August 1, 1819 September 28, 1891 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill.

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