Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   In the year 1820 first potatoes planted in Hawaii  

Aug 08   In the year 1820 winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)  

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   In the year 1820 george Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer  

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

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 in the year 1820.  

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) on this day in history.  

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

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?" on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1820 earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863  

Sep 17   On this day in history henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76  

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

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

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher on this day in history.  

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

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

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer in the year 1820.  

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

Oct 11   In the year 1820 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) 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   In the year 1820 cuenca Ecuador declares independence  

Nov 03   On this day in history cuenca, Ecuador declares independence  

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Jan 09   On this day in history birth of pavel Krizkovsky, composer  

Jan 17   In the year 1820 birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)  

Jan 18   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 birth of anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women  

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   On this day in history birth of joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)  

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

Jan 23   On this day in history death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn  

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   In the year 1820 samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57  

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

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 on this day in history.