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

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   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer on this day in history.  

Aug 24   On this day in history constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.  

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   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?" in the year 1820.  

Sep 07   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

Sep 15   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.  

Sep 17   On this day in history earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863  

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) on this day in history.  

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

Sep 23   In the year 1820 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   In the year 1820 isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)  

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

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

Oct 03   Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

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

Oct 12   Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 in the year 1820.  

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   On this day in history james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889  

Nov 03   On this day in history 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   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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 29   George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 in the year 1820.  

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   On this day in history 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.