Events of 1719

January 23: Liechtenstein.

June 10: Battle of Glen Shiel.

January–June

• January 23 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.

• February 20 – The first Treaty of Stockholm is signed.

• April 19 – In Louisiana (New France), Bienville's brother Serigny arrives on a French man-of-war, bringing news that war was declared between France and Spain (from December 1718).

• April 25 – Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.

• April – French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick invades the Basque provinces of Spain.

• May 14 – In Louisiana (New France), at war with Spain, Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.

• June 4 – Battle of Osel Island: A Russian naval force defeats the Swedish fleet.

• June 10 – Battle of Glen Shiel: British forces defeat the Jacobites and their Spanish allies.

• June 20 – Austrians are defeated in the Battle of Francavilla.

July–December

• December 22 – Andrew Bradford publishes the American Weekly Mercury, Pennsylvania's first newspaper.

Undated

• Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census.

• Miners in Falun, Sweden find the apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine.

• Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green, opens in Wapping (opened by Henry Raine).

Ongoing events

• Great Northern War (1700–1721)

• War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720)

Births

• January 2 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)

• January 3

• *Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (d. 1773)

• *Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz (d. 1802)

• January 17 – William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)

• January 22 – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (d. 1769)

• January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)

• January 28 – Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749)

• March 4 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)

• March 13 – John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)

• April 2 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (d. 1803)

• April 9 – Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1804)

• April 24 – Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, Italian literary critic (d. 1789)

• May 30 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)

• June 28 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (d. 1785)

• July 4 – Michel-Jean Sedaine, French dramatist (d. 1797)

• August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767)

• August 20

• *Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (d. 1783)

• *Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1791)

• August 25 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)

• September 6 – Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick (d. 1754)

• September 11 – Tanuma Okitsugu, Japanese government official (d. 1788)

• September 27 – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800)

• October 13 – Marco Coltellini, Italian librettist (d. 1777)

• October 17 – Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)

• October 20 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772)

• November 6 – Louis-Antoine Caraccioli, French writer (d. 1803)

• November 14 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1787)

• November 23 – Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)

• November 30 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)

• December 15 – Ludwig IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1742)

• date unknown

• *William Bradford, American revolutionary and printer (d. 1791)

• *Dominic Serres, French-born painter (d. 1793)

• *Thomas Sheridan, Irish actor (d. 1788)

Deaths

• January 15 – Tikhon Streshnev, Russian boyar (born 1649)

• March 1 – Richard Ingoldesby, British soldier and colonial governor

• April 7 – Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French educational reformer (born 1651)

• April 15 – Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (born 1635)

• April 21 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1640)

• May 17 – Laurentius Christophori Hornæus, Swedish witch hunter (born 1645)

• May 29 – Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Baronet, Scottish judge

• June 17 – Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (born 1672)

• July 5

• *Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Irish general (born 1641)

• *Samuel Schotten, rabbi (born 1644)

• July 17 – Elinor James, British pamphleteer (born 1644)

• July 22 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter and engraver (born 1654)

• September 7 – John Harris (writer), English writer (born c.1666)

• September 21 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (born 1647)

• September 27 – George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (born 1662)

• October 27 – François Baert, Belgian hagiographer (born 1651)

• November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (born 1652)

• December 2 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born 1634)

• November 26 – John Hudson, English classical scholar (born 1662)

• December 31 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (born 1646)

• date unknown

• *Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (born 1667)

• *Robert Clicquot, French organ builder (born 1645)

• *André Raison, French composer and organist (born 1650)

• *Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Swedish General (born 1659)