Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   In the year 1820 first potatoes planted in Hawaii   

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 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer   

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) in the year 1820.   

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer in the year 1820.   

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   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 on this day in history.   

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1820.   

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

Sep 21   In the year 1820 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   In the year 1820 thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

Sep 26   In the year 1820 daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85   

Sep 26   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) in the year 1820.   

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

Oct 01   On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer   

Oct 03   In the year 1820 ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74   

Oct 08   On this day in history stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   On this day in history guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 20   In the year 1820 benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)   

Oct 20   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million in the year 1820.   

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 on this day in history.   

Nov 03   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence in the year 1820.   

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

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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 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 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   In the year 1820 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   On this day in history death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn   

Jan 25   On this day in history joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79   

Jan 29   In the year 1820 george III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81   

Feb 07   On this day in history samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57   

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   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 on this day in history.