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   On this day in history janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56  

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

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer in the year 1820.  

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

Aug 20   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer in the year 1820.  

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

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   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 in the year 1820.  

Sep 15   On this day in history 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 in the year 1820.  

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

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.  

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

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

Sep 23   On this day in history thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

Sep 26   Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 in the year 1820.  

Sep 26   On this day in history isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)  

Sep 28   On this day in history freidrich Engels, German social philosopher  

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer  

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   On this day in history alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895  

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   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million on this day in history.  

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 in the year 1820.  

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 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history birth of joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)  

Jan 17   On this day in history 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   George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 on this day in history.  

Feb 07   Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1820.  

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

Feb 14   Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42 died in the year 1820.  

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