Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   First potatoes planted in Hawaii in the year 1820.  

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) in the year 1820.  

Aug 11   In the year 1820 janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56  

Aug 12   In the year 1820 oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation  

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer in the year 1820.  

Aug 14   In the year 1820 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC  

Aug 20   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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?" on this day in history.  

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

Sep 15   On this day in history constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.  

Sep 17   Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on this day in history.  

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

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

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

Sep 26   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) in the year 1820.  

Sep 28   On this day in history freidrich Engels, German social philosopher  

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 03   In the year 1820 ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74  

Oct 08   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer  

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador in the year 1820.  

Oct 11   On this day in history 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   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.  

Oct 20   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million in the year 1820.  

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

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

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca, Ecuador declares independence  

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Jan 09   Pavel Krizkovsky, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 18   In the year 1820 birth of abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884  

Jan 19   In the year 1820 birth of john Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888  

Jan 20   Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women was born in the year 1820.  

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

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)  

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)  

Jan 17   In the year 1820 daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73  

Jan 23   On this day in history death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn  

Jan 25   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 in the year 1820.  

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 on this day in history.  

Feb 14   Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42 died on this day in history.  

Feb 15   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 in the year 1820.