| [[1790s]] | [[1800s]] | [[1810s]] | [[1820s]] | [[1830s]] | [[1840s]] | [[1850s]] | [[1860s]] | [[1870s]] | [[1880s]] | [[1890s]] | [[1900-2000]]| ====== 1819 ====== | * [[1810]] | * [[1811]] | * [[1812]] | * [[1813]] | * [[1814]] | * [[1815]] | * [[1816]] | * [[1817]] | * [[1818]] | * 1819 | ===== Events ===== ==== Boone County ==== * [[East Bend Baptist Church]] is organized. * [[Sand Run Baptist Church]] is organized. * The [[Burlington]] Library Company is incorporated. ==== Kentucky ==== * General John Adair, a hero of the [[War of 1812]], is elected governor. * The [[Replevin Law]] is passed and creditors have to accept notes of the Bank of the Commonwealth which are virtually worthless. * First commercial coal mine in Kentucky, known as the "McLean drift bank" opens in Muhlenberg County Kentucky. * The first commercial oil well in Kentucky opens on the Cumberland River in McCreary County. ==== U.S. & World ==== * The Panic of 1819 causes widespread foreclosures, [[banks|bank]] failures and unemployment. * Spain cedes Florida to the United States; the territory will become a state 26 years later. * Unitarianism is founded by William Ellering Channing in Boston. The movement has roots in the Protestant Reformation and liberal New England Congregationalism. * The first commercially produced eating chocolate is made in Vevy, Switzerland.