Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

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

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) in the year 1820.   

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

Aug 12   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation in the year 1820.   

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer on this day in history.   

Aug 14   On this day in history 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC   

Aug 20   Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 24   On this day in history constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 26   In the year 1820 james Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)   

Aug 30   On this day in history george Frederick Root, composer   

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   In the year 1820 coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67   

Sep 15   In the year 1820 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   On this day in history joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)   

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   On this day in history 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   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher on this day in history.   

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

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

Oct 08   In the year 1820 stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador in the year 1820.   

Oct 11   On this day in history alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895   

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

Oct 20   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Nov 03   On this day in history cuenca, Ecuador declares independence   

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Jan 09   On this day in history birth of pavel Krizkovsky, composer   

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   In the year 1820 birth of anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women   

Jan 22   Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet was born in the year 1820.   

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

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

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   Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 in the year 1820.   

Jan 29   George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 in the year 1820.   

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

Feb 12   Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1820.   

Feb 14   In the year 1820 death of charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42   

Feb 15   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 in the year 1820.