Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

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

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

Aug 11   In the year 1820 janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56   

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

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

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer in the year 1820.   

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

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) in the year 1820.   

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   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) in the year 1820.   

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher on this day in history.   

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer   

Oct 03   Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 12   Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 in the year 1820.   

Oct 20   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.   

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

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 on this day in history.   

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

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

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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   On this day in history 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   Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women was born in the year 1820.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 07   Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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