Historical Events In 1820

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

Aug 08   In the year 1820 winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)   

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

Aug 12   In the year 1820 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 in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.   

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   George Frederick Root, composer in the year 1820.   

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   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.   

Sep 17   In the year 1820 earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

Sep 17   On this day in history henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76   

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.   

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) on this day in history.   

Sep 21   In the year 1820 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   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) in the year 1820.   

Sep 28   On this day in history freidrich Engels, German social philosopher   

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   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador on this day in history.   

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

Oct 12   On this day in history elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36   

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   In the year 1820 james Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889   

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

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

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   In the year 1820 daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73   

Jan 23   Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn died on this day in history.   

Jan 25   In the year 1820 joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79   

Jan 29   On this day in history 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   On this day in history guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71   

Feb 14   On this day in history death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42   

Feb 15   On this day in history pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63