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   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   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.   

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

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

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

Jan 25   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.