Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   On this day in history first potatoes planted in Hawaii   

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) in the year 1820.   

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1820.   

Aug 12   On this day in history oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation   

Aug 13   On this day in history 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   On this day in history adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

Aug 24   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.   

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   George Frederick Root, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 30   In the year 1820 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?"   

Sep 07   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

Sep 15   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.   

Sep 17   In the year 1820 earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 26   In the year 1820 daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85   

Sep 26   On this day in history isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)   

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher in the year 1820.   

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer in the year 1820.   

Oct 03   On this day in history ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74   

Oct 08   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   On this day in history guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

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

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   In the year 1820 james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

Nov 03   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence on this day in history.   

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca, Ecuador declares independence   

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

Jan 17   In the year 1820 birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)   

Jan 18   In the year 1820 birth of abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884   

Jan 19   In the year 1820 birth of john Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888   

Jan 20   On this day in history birth of anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women   

Jan 22   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born in the year 1820.   

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

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   On this day in history death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42   

Feb 15   In the year 1820 pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63