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) in the year 1820.   

Aug 11   In the year 1820 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   On this day in history 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC   

Aug 20   In the year 1820 adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer   

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

Aug 24   On this day in history jacopo Tomadini, composer   

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

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

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 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   In the year 1820 earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

Sep 17   Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1820.   

Sep 20   On this day in history 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   Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army) on this day in history.   

Sep 23   Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.   

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   Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher in the year 1820.   

Oct 01   Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer in the year 1820.   

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

Oct 11   Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million   

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   Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence on this day in history.   

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Jan 09   Pavel Krizkovsky, composer was born on this day in history.   

Jan 17   In the year 1820 birth of anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)   

Jan 18   On this day in history 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   In the year 1820 birth of hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet   

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

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

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

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