Major Events
- Jul 30 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body
- Aug 20 Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude
- Nov 10 René Descartes has the dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy"
- Dec 4 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.
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Who Died in 1619
- Jan 7 Nicholas Hilliard, English painter of miniature portraits, dies at about 71
- Jan 24 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator against the rule of James I of England, dies at 54
- Feb 9 Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
- Mar 1 Thomas Campion, English physician, composer, poet (Poemata), dies at 53
- Mar 2 Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish King Frederik II and Queen Consort of James I of England, dies at 44
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