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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.


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.  
File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1817: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] born. He will contribute to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.  


||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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