Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   First potatoes planted in Hawaii in the year 1820.  

Aug 08   On this day in history winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)  

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

Aug 12   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation on this day in history.  

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer on this day in history.  

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

Aug 20   On this day in history adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer  

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

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer in the year 1820.  

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

Aug 30   In the year 1820 george Frederick Root, composer  

Aug 30   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67  

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

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

Sep 17   In the year 1820 henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76  

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.  

Sep 21   In the year 1820 joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)  

Sep 21   On this day in history williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)  

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

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

Sep 26   In the year 1820 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 on this day in history.  

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

Oct 08   On this day in history stanislaw Katski, composer  

Oct 09   In the year 1820 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   On this day in history elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36  

Oct 20   In the year 1820 benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)  

Oct 20   In the year 1820 spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million  

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

Nov 03   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence in the year 1820.  

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

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

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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 20   Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women was born on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1820.  

Jan 23   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 george III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81  

Feb 07   On this day in history samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57  

Feb 12   In the year 1820 guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71  

Feb 14   Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42 died on this day in history.  

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