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) in the year 1820.   

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 on this day in history.   

Aug 14   In the year 1820 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   Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century in the year 1820.   

Aug 24   Jacopo Tomadini, composer in the year 1820.   

Aug 26   On this day in history james Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)   

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer in the year 1820.   

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   On this day in history constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.   

Sep 17   On this day in history earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

Sep 17   On this day in history henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76   

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) in the year 1820.   

Sep 21   Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25) on this day in history.   

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

Sep 23   On this day in history 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   Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita) on this day in history.   

Sep 28   In the year 1820 freidrich Engels, German social philosopher   

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer on this day in history.   

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

Oct 08   Stanislaw Katski, composer in the year 1820.   

Oct 09   On this day in history guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador   

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

Oct 12   In the year 1820 elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36   

Oct 20   Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.   

Oct 20   Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million on this day in history.   

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

Nov 03   On this day in history 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 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   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 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 17   In the year 1820 daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73   

Jan 23   In the year 1820 death of prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 in the year 1820.   

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

Feb 14   Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42 died on this day in history.   

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