Page 3: Historical Events In 1820

Apr 17   Gottfried Conradi, composer on this day in history.   

Apr 20   Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies in the year 1820.   

Apr 26   In the year 1820 alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)   

Apr 27   In the year 1820 herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics)   

May 04   On this day in history joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack   

May 10   Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49 in the year 1820.   

May 11   Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage in the year 1820.   

May 12   Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War) in the year 1820.   

May 12   The birth of Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing in the year 1820.   

May 13   On this day in history opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed   

May 13   The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed in the year 1820.   

May 14   Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43 in the year 1820.   

May 22   Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer in the year 1820.   

May 23   James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) in the year 1820.   

May 28   In the year 1820 willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic   

Jun 09   Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

Jun 13   On this day in history wF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral   

Jun 14   John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations) on this day in history.   

Jun 18   In the year 1820 martin Andreas Udbye, composer   

Jun 19   In the year 1820 joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies   

Jun 24   In the year 1820 henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898   

Jun 28   Tomato is proven non-poisonous on this day in history.   

Jun 28   On this day in history tomato is proven nonpoisonous   

Jul 01   In the year 1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"   

Jul 10   Andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872 in the year 1820.   

Jul 13   In the year 1820 commencement of the trial in Stirling for High Treason of the Radicals captured at the Battle of Bonnymuir. Two of the accused, John Baird and Andrew Hardie, were subsequently executed on 8 September 1820.   

Jul 22   On this day in history louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862   

Jul 26   John Marshall Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864 in the year 1820.   

Jul 27   John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

Jul 29   Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871 in the year 1820.   

Aug 01   On this day in history london's Regent's Canal opens.   

Aug 03   Luther Orlando Emerson, composer in the year 1820.   

Aug 06   On this day in history antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59   

Aug 07   On this day in history 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii   

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Jan 09   Pavel Krizkovsky, composer was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 17   In the year 1820 birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)   

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

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   In the year 1820 birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet   

Jan 22   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 22   On this day in history 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   Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn died on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1820 samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57   

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