Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)   

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56.   

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

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer   

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

Aug 20   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

Aug 24   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer.   

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)   

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer   

Aug 30   James Wilson, Strathaven Radical, hung and beheaded at Glasgow Green for his part in the 1820 Rising. A crowd of 20000 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.   

Sep 15   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.   

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76.   

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)   

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).   

Sep 26   Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85   

Sep 26   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita).   

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher.   

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer.   

Oct 03   Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74   

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador.   

Oct 11   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895   

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

Oct 20   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)   

Oct 20   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million   

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

Nov 03   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence.   

Nov 03   Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence   

Nov 04   Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870.   

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

Jan 17   In the year 1820 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   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   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born on this day in history.   

Jan 22   In the year 1820 birth of johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 25   On this day in history joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79   

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   On this day in history 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