1719

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1680s  1690s  1700s  – 1710s –  1720s  1730s  1740s
Years:	1716 1717 1718 – 1719 – 1720 1721 1722

Events

• January 23 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire
• April 25 – Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe
• June 10 – Battle of Glen Shiel
• Prussia conducts Europe's first systematic census
• Miners in Falun, Sweden find an apparently petrified body of Fet-Mats Israelsson in an unused part of the copper mine.
• France declares war on Spain