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

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

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 on this day in history.  

Aug 24   In the year 1820 jacopo Tomadini, composer  

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

Aug 30   In the year 1820 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?" in the year 1820.  

Sep 07   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 in the year 1820.  

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 in the year 1820.  

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

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

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

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 in the year 1820.  

Sep 26   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) on this day in history.  

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

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   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer  

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador on this day in history.  

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

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

Oct 20   On this day in history 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 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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 17   In the year 1820 birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)  

Jan 18   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born in the year 1820.  

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 in the year 1820.  

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

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

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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

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 in the year 1820.  

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