Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

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

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   In the year 1820 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   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   On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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

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

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

Sep 17   On this day in history henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76   

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

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

Sep 21   In the year 1820 williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

Sep 26   In the year 1820 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   On this day in history freidrich Engels, German social philosopher   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 11   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 on this day in history.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

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

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Jan 09   On this day in history birth of pavel Krizkovsky, composer   

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   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 in the year 1820.   

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   Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 17   In the year 1820 daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73   

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 in the year 1820.   

Jan 29   George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 15   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 on this day in history.