Historical Events In 1820

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

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) on this day in history.  

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

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   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   In the year 1820 jacopo Tomadini, composer  

Aug 26   In the year 1820 james Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)  

Aug 30   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   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) on this day in history.  

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

Oct 01   On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer  

Oct 03   Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1820.  

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

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 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) 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 in the year 1820.  

Nov 03   On this day in history cuenca Ecuador declares independence  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 18   On this day in history birth of abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884  

Jan 19   On this day in history birth of john Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888  

Jan 20   In the year 1820 birth of anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women  

Jan 22   In the year 1820 birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet  

Jan 22   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born in the year 1820.  

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 in the year 1820.  

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   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 in the year 1820.  

Feb 12   Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Feb 14   On this day in history death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42  

Feb 15   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 in the year 1820.