1819

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1819 was 52 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham.

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In 1819, the first major financial crisis in the United States, the Panic of 1819, occurred. Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia. Spain ceded Florida to the United States. The SS Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Notable births included social critic John Ruskin, poet James Russell Lowell, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, poet Walt Whitman, novelist Herman Melville, and detective Allan Pinkerton. Notable deaths included philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, King Kamehameha I of Hawaii, founding father Hugh Williamson, naval officer Oliver Hazard Perry, and inventor James Watt.

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