Page 3: Historical Events In 1820

Apr 17   Gottfried Conradi, composer in the year 1820.   

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

Apr 26   On this day in history alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)   

Apr 27   Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics) in the year 1820.   

May 04   Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack in the year 1820.   

May 10   On this day in history matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49   

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

May 12   On this day in history florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)   

May 12   The birth of Florence Nightingale, English pioneer of nursing on this day in history.   

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

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

May 14   In the year 1820 paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43   

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   Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic in the year 1820.   

Jun 09   In the year 1820 wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68   

Jun 13   WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral on this day in history.   

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

Jun 18   On this day in history martin Andreas Udbye, composer   

Jun 19   Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies on this day in history.   

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

Jun 28   Tomato is proven non-poisonous in the year 1820.   

Jun 28   Tomato is proven nonpoisonous on this day in history.   

Jul 01   1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published" on this day in history.   

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

Jul 13   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 in the year 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   London's Regent's Canal opens on this day in history.   

Aug 03   On this day in history luther Orlando Emerson, composer   

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

Aug 07   In the year 1820 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii   

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

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)   

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

Jan 19   John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1820.   

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)   

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 in the year 1820.   

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   George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 15   In the year 1820 pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63