Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   First potatoes planted in Hawaii on this day in history.   

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   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.   

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   In the year 1820 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   In the year 1820 coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67   

Sep 15   In the year 1820 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   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 21   On this day in history joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)   

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.   

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

Sep 26   On this day in history daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85   

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

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher in the year 1820.   

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1820 guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

Oct 11   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 in the year 1820.   

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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 cuenca Ecuador declares independence   

Nov 03   Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence in the year 1820.   

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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   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born in the year 1820.   

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   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born in the year 1820.   

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

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

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 in the year 1820.   

Jan 23   In the year 1820 death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn   

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   In the year 1820 samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57   

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

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.