Page 3: Historical Events In 1820

Apr 17   Gottfried Conradi, composer.   

Apr 20   Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies.   

Apr 26   Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)   

Apr 27   Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics).   

May 04   Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack   

May 10   Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49   

May 11   Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.   

May 12   Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing is born   

May 12   Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)   

May 13   Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed   

May 14   Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43.   

May 22   Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer.   

May 23   James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)   

May 28   Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic   

Jun 09   Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68   

Jun 13   WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral.   

Jun 14   John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations).   

Jun 18   Martin Andreas Udbye, composer   

Jun 19   Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies   

Jun 24   Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898.   

Jun 28   Tomato is proven non-poisonous.   

Jun 28   Tomato is proven nonpoisonous.   

Jul 01   1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"   

Jul 10   Andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872   

Jul 13   Commencement of the trial in Stirling for High Treason of the Radicals captured at the Battle of Bonnymuir. Two of the accused, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, were subsequently executed on 8 September 1820   

Jul 22   Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862.   

Jul 26   John Marshall Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864.   

Jul 27   John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

Jul 29   Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871.   

Aug 01   London's Regent's Canal opens   

Aug 03   Luther Orlando Emerson, composer   

Aug 06   Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59   

Aug 07   1st potatoes planted in Hawaii.   

Aug 07   inaugural potatoes planted in Hawaii   

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Jan 09   Pavel krizkovsky: Composer   

Jan 17   Anne bronte: English novelist/poet (tenant of wildfell hall)   

Jan 18   Abraham buford: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1884   

Jan 19   John haskell king: Bvt major general (union army), died in 1888   

Jan 20   Anne jemima clough: England, promoted higher education for women   

Jan 22   Hermann von lingg: German playwright/poet   

Jan 22   Johan hendrik koelman: Portrait painter (jahresringe)   

Jan 22   Joseph wolf: German artist    

Jan 17   Daniel w wyttenbach: Dutch classicist/historian,   

Jan 23   Prince edward augustus: Duke of kent and strathearn   

Jan 25   Joseph f weigl: German/austria violin cellist,    

Jan 29   George iii: King of great-britain (1760-1820),    

Feb 07   Samuel adams holyoke: Composer,   

Feb 12   Guillaume albert teniers: Composer,    

Feb 14   Charles f: Duke of berry, murdered at 42   

Feb 15   Pierre-joseph cambon: Member of committee the salut public,