Timeline December 1819

Events in December 1819 4

• 1819 Six Acts passed in Britain Parliament restricts public assembly and the press after Peterloo In response to the Peterloo Massacre, the British Parliament passed a package of six laws restricting public meetings, authorizing searches for weapons, speeding up trials for sedition, and taxing cheap political pamphlets. The acts were intended to suppress radical reform agitation. They were widely condemned by reformers as repressive.
• 1819 Alabama admitted as 22nd US state Alabama joins the Union Alabama was admitted to the United States as the twenty-second state, carved out of the former Mississippi Territory. Its admission added to the growing sectional balance debate between free and slave states that would soon erupt over Missouri's statehood. Huntsville served briefly as the first state capital.
• 1819 Congress of Angostura founds Republic of Colombia Bolivar's union of Venezuela and New Granada is proclaimed The Congress of Angostura, convened earlier in the year, proclaimed the union of Venezuela and New Granada as the Republic of Colombia, the forerunner of Gran Colombia. Simon Bolivar was named president of the new republic. The union later also incorporated Ecuador and Panama before splitting apart in 1830.
• 1819 Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe Historical novel of medieval England appears Sir Walter Scott published Ivanhoe, a historical novel set in twelfth-century England amid tensions between Normans and Saxons. It was his first major work set outside Scotland and became hugely popular across Europe. The novel helped shape the modern romantic image of medieval chivalry and Robin Hood.