What Happened in December 1819

Historical Events

Dec 13 Edwin George Monk, English church organist and composer, born in Frome, Somerset (d. 1900)
Dec 16 Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1861)
Dec 17 Samuel Jones, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Powhatan County, Virginia (d. 1887)
Dec 18 Yakov Petrovich Polonsky, Russian Romantic poet (Stichotvorenija), born in Ryazan, Russia (d. 1898)
Dec 19 James Clifford Veatch, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Elizabeth, Indiana (d. 1895)
Dec 20 John Geary, American lawyer and politician (1st SF postmaster; 1st mayor), born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
Dec 22 Franz Abt, German composer and choir conductor, born in Eilenburg, Prussian Saxony (d. 1885)
Dec 22 Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician, born in Montpellier, France (d. 1892)
Dec 23 Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (d. 1889)
Dec 26 E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899)
Dec 30 John White Geary, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), lawyer, and politician (Governor of Pennsylvania, 1867-73; Mayor of San Francisco, 1850-51), born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania (d. 1873)
Dec 30 Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest), born in Neuruppin, Prussia (d. 1898)

Dec 5 Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet, lawyer and translator, dies at 69
Dec 9 Ann C Coleman, American socialite and fiancée of lawyer and future US President James Buchanan, dies of a laudanum overdose at 23 [1]
Dec 19 Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer, dies at 54
Dec 20 Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, French composer, dies at 50