Page 4: 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) in the year 1820.   

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   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer on this day in history.   

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

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

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

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   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   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   Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 in the year 1820.   

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

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 in the year 1820.   

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

Sep 28   In the year 1820 freidrich Engels, German social philosopher   

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

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

Oct 08   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador in the year 1820.   

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   On this day in history benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)   

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   On this day in history cuenca Ecuador declares independence   

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca, Ecuador declares independence   

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

Jan 17   Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 18   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born on this day in history.   

Jan 19   John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 20   Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women was born on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn   

Jan 25   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

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