1719

This page relates to the year 1719 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Foundation of Extremely of Chartres by the French in the Illinois.
Jean-Baptiste Bénard of the Toothing-stone goes up the red Rivière, met the Snakes (Comanche) then explores the Oklahoma and part of the Colorado.

February 28th: The emperor Moghol Farrukhsiyar is deposited and plugged by his ministers Abdullah and Hussain Ali which had helped it to seize the power. They put on the throne the brothers Rafi-ud-Darajat and Rafi-ud-Daulat, which die in the year.
27 - April 28th: Farrukhsiyar is assassinated in its prison.
Abdullah and Hussain Ali puts Roshan Akhtar on the throne of the empire Moghol under the name of Muhammad Shah (fine in 1748). Under its long reign, the favorites and the favorite ones waste the little which remains imperial treasure.

the various European companies (especially the British), start direct exchanges with the China, via the counters of Canton. The traffic is of six ships of 500 barrels per annum until in 1730, then increases significantly.
Pierre-Christophe Lenoir becomes governor of the French Compagnie of the Eastern Indies. The Company is reorganized by John Law which distributes its management between the shareholders, of the directors and the police chief of the king. Pondichéry becomes the capital of the French provinces of the Indian Ocean: islands of France and Bourbon, Chandernagor (Bengal) and Mahé (Hefty fellow), acquired in 1725. The governor Pierre-Christophe Lenoir pays the debts of the Company and thanks to its rigorous management, Pondichéry becomes a prosperous city.
Establishment by the emperor Charles VI of counters in India on the coast of Coromandel, then in 1722 with the mouth of the Gange. It opens also an office with Canton.

January 9th: France declares the war with the Spain (Guerre of the Quadruple Alliance, continuation of the Conspiration of Cellamare of 1718), and invades part of the north of Spain.
January 23rd: the Liechtenstein becomes an autonomous principality within the framework of the Saint Empire.
February 19th: Georg Heinrich von Görtz, Minister for Finance of Charles XII of Sweden, condemned to died for high treason, is carried out.
February 21st: Ulrique Éléonore of Sweden must accept a constitution which reduces the royal capacity to the profit of the two Rooms (Riksrad and Riksdag).
March 17th: Crowning of Ulrique Éléonore of Sweden.
June 4th: Victoire of the Russian fleet on the Sweden with the Battle of the island of Ösel.
June 10th: Demolished Jacobites combined to the Spaniard with the Battle of Glen Shiel, in Scotland, vis-a-vis the British.
June 17th: The French Army of Berwick takes Fontarabie.
July: Russian operation in Sweden. Troops cossacks are unloaded and go on Stockholm.
August 17th: Berwick takes the citadel of Saint-Sebastien.
October: Victoire of France with Urgell on Spain.
November 9th/November 20th: Traité of Stockholm, putting fine at the war enters the Sweden and the Hanover. Bremen and Verden passes to the Hanover.
December: The minister of Philippe V of Spain Alberoni is disgraced following the Conspiration of Cellamare and withdraws himself in Italy where it will become agent of papacy (1721).

January: Law founds the Company of Occident, which, allied in the State and the Bank, controls the whole of the tax system and the French foreign trade (development of the Louisiana).
February - March: The Regent Philippe of Orleans grants the academics of Paris, Jansenists of heart, the school exemption from payment and the financing by the State of their teaching.
May - August: Law gradually takes the control of the French companies of foreign trade and colonial as well as currencies, general farms…
Epidémie of Variole to Paris, which kills 14 000 people. Hot and dry summer. Vagueness of Dysentery, person in charge of approximately five hundred thousands of death, in particular of babies (toxicose).
September 22nd: early Grape harvest in the North of France.
September - October: Conspiracy of Pontcallec. Seditious agitation of noble rural in Brittany.
October 3rd: Letters patent creating a room of justice to consider the “conspirators” Breton.

the tsar Pierre I {{er}} '' Large the '' expels the Jésuites out of Russia.
Russia: Drafting of the Payment for the ecclesiastical businesses under the direction of the bishop Théophane Prokopovitch.

Creation with Vienna of one second company of trade with the East. Fiume and Trieste obtains the statute of free port. Construction of roads connecting the Adriatic to the hereditary countries. The Company tries to organize exchanges towards Spain and the Barbaresque ones, but runs up against Venice and fails.
Reduction in the number of noble to Venice: from 1700 in 1719, it passes to 1028 in 1780.
Suppression of all the commercial monopolies in Russia. Edict declaring free and accessible to all research and the extraction from all metal species on all the grounds, the owners having only one priority right.

March 3rd: Jacques-Louis Small valley of Mimeure (1659 -1719), French writer, marquis and member of the French Academy
March 13rd: Johann Friedrich Böttger, German chemist. (° February 4th 1682)
April 7th: Jean-Baptiste of the Room (1651 -1719).
April 15th: Madam de Maintenon (1635 -1719), mistress then secret wife of Louis XIV, founder of the royal House of Saint-Louis to Saint-Cyr-the School.
April: Pierre Pétrovitch, the successor designated by the tsar Pierre Ier of Russia.
June 17th: Joseph Addison, writer and British politician (Milston, Wiltshire, 1672 - Kensington, 1719).
December 2nd: Pasquier Quesnel, oratorien theorist and leader of the party Jansenist (1634 -1719).
December 31st: John Flamsteed, British astronomer (° 1646)

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