Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   In the year 1820 first potatoes planted in Hawaii  

Aug 08   On this day in history winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)  

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

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   On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer  

Aug 26   In the year 1820 james Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)  

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?" on this day in history.  

Sep 07   In the year 1820 coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67  

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   In the year 1820 henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76  

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) in the year 1820.  

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

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

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

Sep 26   In the year 1820 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 on this day in history.  

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

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer on this day in history.  

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador in the year 1820.  

Oct 11   In the year 1820 alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895  

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

Oct 20   In the year 1820 benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)  

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 in the year 1820.  

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

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page »

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 19   John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born in the year 1820.  

Jan 20   Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women was born on this day in history.  

Jan 22   In the year 1820 birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet  

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

Jan 22   Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) was born in the year 1820.  

Jan 17   In the year 1820 daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73  

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

Feb 12   Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1820.  

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 on this day in history.