Historical Events In 1820

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

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1820.  

Aug 12   On this day in history oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation  

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

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 in the year 1820.  

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   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) in the year 1820.  

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer on this day in history.  

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   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 on this day in history.  

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) in the year 1820.  

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

Oct 08   On this day in history stanislaw Katski, composer  

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

Oct 11   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 on this day in history.  

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

Oct 20   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.  

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   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence in the year 1820.  

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

Nov 04   In the year 1820 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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 19   On this day in history 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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 22   In the year 1820 birth of johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)  

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   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   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