Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

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

Nov 07   James Monroe elected 5th US president   

Nov 09   Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)   

Nov 18   Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer   

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Jan 09   Pavel krizkovsky: Composer   

Jan 17   Anne bronte: English novelist/poet (tenant of wildfell hall)   

Jan 18   Abraham buford: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1884   

Jan 19   John haskell king: Bvt major general (union army), died in 1888   

Jan 20   Anne jemima clough: England, promoted higher education for women   

Jan 22   Hermann von lingg: German playwright/poet   

Jan 22   Johan hendrik koelman: Portrait painter (jahresringe)   

Jan 22   Joseph wolf: German artist    

Jan 17   Daniel w wyttenbach: Dutch classicist/historian,    

Jan 23   Prince edward augustus: Duke of kent and strathearn   

Jan 25   Joseph f weigl: German/austria violin cellist,   

Jan 29   George iii: King of great-britain (1760-1820),    

Feb 07   Samuel adams holyoke: Composer,   

Feb 12   Guillaume albert teniers: Composer,    

Feb 14   Charles f: Duke of berry, murdered at 42   

Feb 15   Pierre-joseph cambon: Member of committee the salut public,