Page 3: Historical Events In 1820

Apr 17   In the year 1820 gottfried Conradi, composer   

Apr 20   In the year 1820 arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies   

Apr 26   On this day in history alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)   

Apr 27   Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics) on this day in history.   

May 04   Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack in the year 1820.   

May 10   On this day in history matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49   

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

May 12   Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War) in the year 1820.   

May 12   On this day in history the birth of Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing   

May 13   In the year 1820 opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed   

May 13   The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed on this day in history.   

May 14   Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43 in the year 1820.   

May 22   On this day in history alexander Ernst Fesca, composer   

May 23   In the year 1820 james Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)   

May 28   On this day in history willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic   

Jun 09   Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

Jun 13   WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral in the year 1820.   

Jun 14   John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations) on this day in history.   

Jun 18   On this day in history martin Andreas Udbye, composer   

Jun 19   On this day in history joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies   

Jun 24   Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898 in the year 1820.   

Jun 28   In the year 1820 tomato is proven non-poisonous   

Jun 28   On this day in history tomato is proven nonpoisonous   

Jul 01   1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published" in the year 1820.   

Jul 10   In the year 1820 andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872   

Jul 13   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862   

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

Jul 27   John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.   

Jul 29   In the year 1820 clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871   

Aug 01   London's Regent's Canal opens in the year 1820.   

Aug 03   In the year 1820 luther Orlando Emerson, composer   

Aug 06   Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59 in the year 1820.   

Aug 07   1st potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.   

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Jan 09   Pavel Krizkovsky, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   On this day in history 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   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   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born in the year 1820.   

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   Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn died in the year 1820.   

Jan 25   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

Jan 29   In the year 1820 george III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81   

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   In the year 1820 pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63