Historical Events In 1820

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

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

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

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

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 in the year 1820.  

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1820 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?"  

Sep 07   In the year 1820 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 in the year 1820.  

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

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

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

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

Oct 01   On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer  

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

Oct 08   On this day in history stanislaw Katski, composer  

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

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 in the year 1820.  

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca Ecuador declares independence  

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca, Ecuador declares independence  

Nov 04   On this day in history robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870  

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

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

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 in the year 1820.  

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

Jan 22   In the year 1820 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   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 in the year 1820.  

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

Feb 07   Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

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

Feb 14   In the year 1820 death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42  

Feb 15   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 on this day in history.