Historical Events In 1820

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) on this day in history.  

Aug 11   On this day in history janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56  

Aug 12   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation in the year 1820.  

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer on this day in history.  

Aug 14   1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC on this day in history.  

Aug 20   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer in the year 1820.  

Aug 24   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.  

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer in the year 1820.  

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) on this day in history.  

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer in the year 1820.  

Aug 30   James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20,000 sympathetic to Wilson, witnessed the event. James Wilson, on his way to the scaffold, remarked to the hangman Thomas Moore - "Did ye evir see sic a crowd, Tammas?" in the year 1820.  

Sep 07   On this day in history coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67  

Sep 15   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.  

Sep 17   In the year 1820 earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863  

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

Sep 20   In the year 1820 george Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)  

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) on this day in history.  

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.  

Sep 23   In the year 1820 thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

Sep 26   Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 in the year 1820.  

Sep 26   In the year 1820 isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)  

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher in the year 1820.  

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer  

Oct 03   On this day in history ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74  

Oct 08   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer  

Oct 09   On this day in history guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador  

Oct 11   In the year 1820 alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895  

Oct 12   On this day in history elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36  

Oct 20   In the year 1820 benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)  

Oct 20   On this day in history spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million  

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 in the year 1820.  

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca Ecuador declares independence  

Nov 03   Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence on this day in history.  

Nov 04   Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870 in the year 1820.  

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Jan 09   Pavel Krizkovsky, composer was born in the year 1820.  

Jan 17   Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884  

Jan 19   John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born in the year 1820.  

Jan 20   In the year 1820 birth of anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women  

Jan 22   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born on this day in history.  

Jan 22   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born in the year 1820.  

Jan 22   Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 17   On this day in history daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73  

Jan 23   Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn died on this day in history.  

Jan 25   On this day in history joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79  

Jan 29   On this day in history george III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81  

Feb 07   In the year 1820 samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57  

Feb 12   Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1820.  

Feb 14   On this day in history death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42  

Feb 15   In the year 1820 pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63