• misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play?
• original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona, a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears, command prices of over $20,000 when they come up for sale?
• the 19th century New York City saloon Hole-in-the-Wall employed two female criminals as bouncers?
• the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide?
• in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna's nobility?
• in Tum Teav, a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with a adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
• during the era of Ryukyu Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century?
• former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford?
• in penny gaffs, theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England, the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached?
• the Jagiellonian Library (pictured) of Kraków, dating back to the 14th century, is the largest Polish collection of pre-19th century texts?
• the Müller-Thurgau hybrid grape is a 19th century cross between the Riesling and Chasselas?
• the founding father of physical education in Poland, Dr. Henryk Jordan, started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century?
• the retired Texas A&M University historian Garland E. Bayliss researched the 19th century origins of the Arkansas state penitentiary?
• the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?
• the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century?
• the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a 19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions?
• the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?
• the North American Phalanx was a mid-19th century Utopian community in Monmouth County, New Jersey based on the idea of French socialist Charles Fourier?
• the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown, New York, features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
• a study on chemical analysis by Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque (pictured), a Portuguese military officer, scientist and statesman of the 19th century, motivated a special report by two of the most prestigious scientists of the time: Jean-Antoine Chaptal and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac?
• Walerian Łukasiński, a 19th century Polish Army officer, was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire, and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions?
• English-born architect William Nichols designed and built statehouses for North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi in the early 19th century?
• Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century, with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
• Alexander Brodie Spark, influential merchant, magistrate, investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century, entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839?
• Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?
• English opera singer and actress Florence Perry (pictured) was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century?
• Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?
• 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location?
• nineteenth century New Zealand gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland's main export?
• California's Russian River is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century?
• Antonine Barada was a 19th century mixed blood fur trader in Nebraska whose mythic strength and heroic actions against slavery prompted his status as a current-day folk hero?
• Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
• Joseph M. Street, a 19th century American pioneer, was present at the signing of the peace treaty ending the Winnebago War?
• sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?
• St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?
• Jaja, one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria, began his life as a slave in Bonny?
• feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century?
• Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid–19th century in search of the source of the Nile?
• Dupuy de Lôme was a 19th century French naval architect, who developed the first steam battleship, the first sea-going ironclad warship, and the first large airship in history?
• Edward Palmer, an early-19th century utopian socialist, advocated the complete abolition of money?
• 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?
  

Facts on topics related to 19th century

18th century

• 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton?
• 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie?
• Polish bishop Józef Andrzej Załuski, founded Załuski Library, one of the largest 18th century European libraries?
• Wales had one of the highest literacy rates in eighteenth century Europe thanks to the wealthy Bridget Bevan (pictured), who sponsored a system of "circulating schools"?
• Anna Maria Garthwaite, the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman, became the leading designer of flowered fabrics for the Spitalfields silk-weaving trade in 18th century England?
• Bodawpaya, an 18th-19th century king of Burma, fathered 120 children?
• Boyle Roche, an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms, was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales?
• Carl Johan Cronstedt increased the efficiency of wood-burning stoves in the 18th century by a factor of eight?
• Daskalogiannis was an 18th-century Cretan rebel skinned alive by Ottoman rulers?
• Dunston Pillar, a land lighthouse south of Lincoln, England, was built in the 18th century to aid navigation across the treacherous eastern heathlands?

Romanticism

• Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María, became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
• Kordian, a romantic drama by one of Poland's Three Bards, Juliusz Słowacki, is a polemic with Dziady, an earlier work by another of the Three Bards, Adam Mickiewicz?
• a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia?
• a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
• in 1833, romantic poet Panagiotis Soutsos envisioned the revival of the ancient Olympic Games, 63 years before the first International Olympics?
• the Blijde Inkomst (the "Joyous Entry") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant, compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Schiller, wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe?
• Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (pictured) was noted as a patroness of Schiller, Goethe, and Liszt?
• a real-life German alchemist named Johann Georg Faust was the inspiration for Marlowe-Goethe Faust of fictional fame?
• the Comoedienhaus theater, built in 1782, the first theater of performing arts in Frankfurt, Germany, played host to concerts by Mozart, Schiller and Goethe, among others?
• when Caroline von Wolzogen (pictured) published her novel Agnes von Lilien anonymously in 1798, it was thought by some readers to be by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Friedrich Schiller?

Richard Wagner

• Friedrich Nietzsche suggested the crest on the frontispiece of Richard Wagner's autobiography, Mein Leben, be composed of a vulture and the constellation The Plough?
• American opera singer Margaret Harshaw portrayed more Wagnerian heroines on stage at the Metropolitan Opera than anyone else in the opera's history?
• Anna Deinet created the role of Brangäne in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, the first of two Wagner characters she premiered?
• Luise Jaide created two roles in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle?
• Marie Haupt, Josephine Schefsky‎ and Friederike Grün‎ each premiered a character in Richard Wagner's first Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in August 1876?
• for participating in the American premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was never again invited to perform at Bayreuth?
• husband and wife Heinrich and Therese Vogl portrayed the incestuous lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre on June 26, 1870?
• in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's's epic operatic Ring Cycle?
• soprano June Card appeared as Freia and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Michael Gielen and staged by Ruth Berghaus at the Frankfurt Opera?

20th century

• British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók, Bernstein, Britten, Elliott Carter, Rachmaninoff, Steve Reich and Stravinsky?
• Cincinnati streetcars were the main form of public transportation in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the turn of the 20th century?
• Edward Lipiński was one of the most prominent Polish economists of the 20th century?
• Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall?
• Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century?
• Munir Bashir, known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century?
• St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum, which lasted until the mid-late 20th century?
• St. George's Cathedral (pictured) in Lviv, Ukraine served as the mother church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the 19th and 20th century?
• New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl" (pictured), an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century?
• Dorothy was the longest-running musical stage production ever until the 20th century, with an initial run of 931 performances?

Romantic poetry

• nineteenth-century Irish portrait painter Richard Rothwell is buried next to the Romantic poet John Keats in the Protestant cemetery in Rome?
• the hazaj meter was the most popular meter for Iranian romantic epics in the 11th century?