Page 4: Historical Events In 1820

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

Aug 08   On this day in history winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)   

Aug 11   On this day in history janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56   

Aug 12   Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1820 adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

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

Aug 24   In the year 1820 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

Aug 26   James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66) in the year 1820.   

Aug 30   In the year 1820 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   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 in the year 1820.   

Sep 15   Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.   

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

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) in the year 1820.   

Sep 21   In the year 1820 williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)   

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.   

Sep 26   On this day in history daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85   

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

Sep 28   In the year 1820 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   Stanislaw Katski, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 09   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Oct 20   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

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   Cuenca Ecuador declares independence on this day in history.   

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

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Jan 09   In the year 1820 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 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   In the year 1820 birth of anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women   

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

Jan 25   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Feb 14   Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42 died in the year 1820.   

Feb 15   Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63 on this day in history.