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   In the year 1820 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC   

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

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

Aug 24   In the year 1820 jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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

Aug 30   George Frederick Root, composer on this day in history.   

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?" in the year 1820.   

Sep 07   Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 20   George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

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

Sep 21   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) in the year 1820.   

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 in the year 1820.   

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   On this day in history gustav Adolf Heinze, composer   

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   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1820 spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million   

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

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   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   In the year 1820 birth of abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884   

Jan 19   John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 20   Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 22   On this day in history birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet   

Jan 22   In the year 1820 birth of johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)   

Jan 22   Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) was born in the year 1820.   

Jan 17   Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 25   In the year 1820 joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79   

Jan 29   On this day in history george III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81   

Feb 07   In the year 1820 samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57   

Feb 12   On this day in history guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71   

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

Feb 15   On this day in history pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63