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||Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (b. 22 February 1796) ForMemRS was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.
||Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (b. 22 February 1796) ForMemRS was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.


||1817 Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1817: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] born. He will work in the area of arithmetic-geometric mean, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange, and generalizing the results of Kummer diagonalising symmetric matrices using determinants and Sturm functions.  


||1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
||1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.

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