History
1719
General
Population: 677 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe (based on adventures of Alexander Selkirk), Thomas D'Urfey (humor),
Ludvig Holberg (poem)
Music: Dimitrie Cantemir the Russian musician writes book on Turkish music
Handel directs Royal Academy of Music in London
- Science: Stukeley publishes on fossilized bones misidentified as crocodilian
Flamsteed star catalog becomes obsolete
- Deaths: Poet Joseph Addison, Painter Jan Weenix, Astronomer John Flamsteed, Mme. De Maintenon - wife of Louis XIV,
Asia
- India: Mohammed Shah grandson of Bahadur Shah becomes the Great Mogul
Europe
- General: France declares war on Spain
Peace of Stockholm between Sweden and Hanover
- France: Smallpox kills 14,000 in Paris
- Great Britain: Ireland declared inseparable from England
Oldest English barracks erected in Berwick-Upon-Tweed
Westminster Hospital in London founded
First cricket match – Londoners v. Kentish Men
James Figg wins English boxing title which he keeps 13 years
Jacobite uprising in the West Highlands of Scotlands (supported by Spain) but fails
- Holy Roman Empire: Austrian Oriental Company founded in Vienna to trade in the East
- Italian States: Herculaneum and Pompeii rediscovered
- Liechtenstein: Becomes independent principality
- Russia: Jesuits expelled from Russia
East
- Massachusetts: The Boston Gazette founded by William Brooker
- Pennsylvania: The American Mercury published in Philadelphia