Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   In the year 1820 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 on this day in history.   

Aug 12   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation in the year 1820.   

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

Aug 14   1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC on this day in history.   

Aug 20   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer in the year 1820.   

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   On this day in history james Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)   

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?" in the year 1820.   

Sep 07   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 in the year 1820.   

Sep 15   In the year 1820 constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

Sep 17   Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 20   On this day in history george Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) on this day in history.   

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.   

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.   

Sep 26   Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 28   On this day in history freidrich Engels, German social philosopher   

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer   

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

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer in the year 1820.   

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador on this day in history.   

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

Oct 12   On this day in history elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36   

Oct 20   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

Oct 20   On this day in history spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million   

Oct 23   In the year 1820 james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

Nov 03   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence in the year 1820.   

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   Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 18   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 19   John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born on this day in history.   

Jan 20   On this day in history 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   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 22   In the year 1820 birth of joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)   

Jan 17   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 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   On this day in history guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71   

Feb 14   In the year 1820 death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42   

Feb 15   On this day in history pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63