Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   On this day in history first potatoes planted in Hawaii  

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 in the year 1820.  

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

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   On this day in history 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   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 in the year 1820.  

Sep 15   In the year 1820 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 on this day in history.  

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   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) in the year 1820.  

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.  

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   In the year 1820 freidrich Engels, German social philosopher  

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   On this day in history stanislaw Katski, composer  

Oct 09   On this day in history 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   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.  

Oct 20   On this day in history 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   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence in the year 1820.  

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

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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   In the year 1820 birth of abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884  

Jan 19   In the year 1820 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 in the year 1820.  

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   Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn died in the year 1820.  

Jan 25   On this day in history joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79  

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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1820.