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 in the year 1820.  

Aug 12   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation in the year 1820.  

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 in the year 1820.  

Aug 24   In the year 1820 constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.  

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

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

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1820.  

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

Sep 21   On this day in history joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)  

Sep 21   On this day in history williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.  

Sep 26   On this day in history daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85  

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   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer in the year 1820.  

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   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) in the year 1820.  

Oct 20   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million on this day in history.  

Oct 23   In the year 1820 james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889  

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

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca, Ecuador declares independence  

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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 17   Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) was born on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 in the year 1820.  

Jan 23   Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn died on this day in history.  

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

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

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

Feb 12   On this day in history guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71  

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 in the year 1820.