Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   In the year 1820 first potatoes planted in Hawaii   

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) on this day in history.   

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

Aug 20   In the year 1820 adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

Aug 24   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.   

Aug 24   On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer   

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) on this day in history.   

Aug 30   On this day in history 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 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?" in the year 1820.   

Sep 07   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 in the year 1820.   

Sep 15   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century on this day in history.   

Sep 17   On this day in history earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

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

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   In the year 1820 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   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher on this day in history.   

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer in the year 1820.   

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

Oct 08   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   In the year 1820 guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

Oct 11   In the year 1820 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   In the year 1820 spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million   

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

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca Ecuador declares independence   

Nov 03   Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence on this day in history.   

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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 on this day in history.   

Jan 18   Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884 was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 19   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet   

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

Jan 22   Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1820 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   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