Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

Aug 07   On this day in history first potatoes planted in Hawaii   

Aug 08   Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate) on this day in history.   

Aug 11   Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56 in the year 1820.   

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

Aug 13   George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer in the year 1820.   

Aug 14   1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC in the year 1820.   

Aug 20   On this day in history adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

Aug 24   In the year 1820 constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

Aug 24   In the year 1820 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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

Aug 30   In the year 1820 george Frederick Root, composer   

Aug 30   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?" on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1820.   

Sep 17   In the year 1820 henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76   

Sep 20   In the year 1820 george Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)   

Sep 21   In the year 1820 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   Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85 on this day in history.   

Sep 26   On this day in history isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)   

Sep 28   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher on this day in history.   

Oct 01   In the year 1820 gustav Adolf Heinze, composer   

Oct 03   Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

Oct 08   On this day in history stanislaw Katski, composer   

Oct 09   In the year 1820 guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

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

Oct 12   Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 in the year 1820.   

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 on this day in history.   

Oct 23   James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889 in the year 1820.   

Nov 03   In the year 1820 cuenca Ecuador declares independence   

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

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Jan 09   In the year 1820 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 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 20   On this day in history 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   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 in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.   

Feb 07   Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

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.