Historical Events In 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   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation in the year 1820.  

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

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

Aug 20   On this day in history adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer  

Aug 24   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.  

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer in the year 1820.  

Aug 26   In the year 1820 james Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)  

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   In the year 1820 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   Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 in the year 1820.  

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1820.  

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.  

Sep 21   In the year 1820 joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)  

Sep 21   On this day in history williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

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

Sep 26   In the year 1820 daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85  

Sep 26   On this day in history isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)  

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

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer in the year 1820.  

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

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer on this day in history.  

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   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 on this day in history.  

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

Nov 03   On this day in history cuenca, Ecuador declares independence  

Nov 04   Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870 on this day in history.  

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Jan 09   On this day in history birth of pavel Krizkovsky, composer  

Jan 17   Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) was born in the year 1820.  

Jan 18   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1820 birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet  

Jan 22   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 25   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

Jan 29   In the year 1820 george III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81  

Feb 07   On this day in history samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57  

Feb 12   In the year 1820 guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71  

Feb 14   Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42 died in the year 1820.  

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