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    1719 ( MDCCXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1719th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 719th year of the 2nd millennium, the 19th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1710s decade.

  2. Jun 10, 2019 · Historian and novelist Maggie Craig tells Historia about this ‘forgotten rising’. This year sees the tercentenary of the Jacobite Rising of 1719, which culminated in defeat for the Jacobites on 10 June of that year at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the north-west Highlands. The ’19 tends to be overshadowed by the ’15 and the tragic glamour ...

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  4. April 23 – 25 – Daniel Defoe 's novel Robinson Crusoe is published in London (by W. Taylor) as his first work of fiction, written aged about 60. [3] The initial title is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of ...

  5. Jun 20, 2016 · A popular, almost bloodless coup led by Arthur Middleton and a host of prominent colonists, the Revolution of 1719 ended proprietary rule in South Carolina. Proprietary governor Robert Johnson was deposed on December 21 and James Moore, Jr., a respected landowner and war hero, was proclaimed provisional governor, setting the stage for South ...

  6. Aug 14, 2019 · The 1619 ProjectThe 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe ...

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