Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   First potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1820 oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation   

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer in the year 1820.   

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

Aug 20   In the year 1820 adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

Aug 24   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.   

Aug 24   In the year 1820 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) in the year 1820.   

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   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.   

Sep 17   On this day in history earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1820.   

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   In the year 1820 williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

Sep 23   In the year 1820 thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

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

Sep 26   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) on this day in history.   

Sep 28   In the year 1820 freidrich Engels, German social philosopher   

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer   

Oct 03   In the year 1820 ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74   

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   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 on this day in history.   

Oct 12   In the year 1820 elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36   

Oct 20   On this day in history benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)   

Oct 20   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million in the year 1820.   

Oct 23   On this day in history james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

Nov 03   On this day in history cuenca Ecuador declares independence   

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

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Jan 09   Pavel Krizkovsky, composer was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 17   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet   

Jan 22   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 23   In the year 1820 death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn   

Jan 25   In the year 1820 joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79   

Jan 29   On this day in history 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   Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1820.   

Feb 14   On this day in history 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.