Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   On this day in history first potatoes planted in Hawaii  

Aug 08   In the year 1820 winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)  

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   In the year 1820 george Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer  

Aug 14   On this day in history 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) in the year 1820.  

Aug 30   On this day in history george Frederick Root, composer  

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   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.  

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

Sep 17   In the year 1820 henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76  

Sep 20   On this day in history george Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)  

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) in the year 1820.  

Sep 21   In the year 1820 williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.  

Sep 26   Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 on this day in history.  

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

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher on this day in history.  

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer  

Oct 03   Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1820.  

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer in the year 1820.  

Oct 09   In the year 1820 guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador  

Oct 11   On this day in history alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895  

Oct 12   In the year 1820 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   In the year 1820 spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million  

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 on this day in history.  

Nov 03   On this day in history cuenca Ecuador declares independence  

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca, Ecuador declares independence  

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

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)  

Jan 18   In the year 1820 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 on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1820 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   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   In the year 1820 joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79  

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

Feb 07   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63