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Months in Year 1820: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 32 of 32

Jan 12th - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
Jan 28th - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
Jan 30th - Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
Feb 6th - 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
Feb 6th - US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))
Feb 6th - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
Feb 23rd - Cato Street conspiracy uncovered
Mar 3rd - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
Mar 5th - Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
Mar 9th - -11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
Mar 9th - James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
Mar 15th - Maine admitted as 23rd state
Mar 25th - Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
Apr 8th - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
Apr 12th - Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
May 11th - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
May 13th - Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed
Jun 28th - Tomato is proven non-poisonous
Jul 1st - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
Aug 1st - London's Regent's Canal opens.
Aug 7th - 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
Aug 14th - 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC
Aug 24th - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
Sep 15th - Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
Oct 9th - Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador
Oct 20th - Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million
Nov 3rd - Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
Nov 7th - James Monroe elected 5th US president
Nov 18th - Antarctica discovered by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer
Dec 6th - US president James Monroe re-elected
Dec 15th - 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
Dec 20th - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 100 of 109

Jan 9th - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
Jan 17th - Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
Jan 18th - Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
Jan 19th - John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
Jan 20th - Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
Jan 22nd - Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet
Jan 22nd - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)
Jan 22nd - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
Jan 23rd - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer
Jan 24th - John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
Jan 31st - William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Feb 1st - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
Feb 2nd - Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
Feb 3rd - Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
Feb 8th - William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army), died in 1891
Feb 13th - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer
Feb 15th - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
Feb 17th - Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher (Brussels Cons)
Feb 17th - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
Feb 20th - Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Feb 28th - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland)
Feb 29th - Adolf Schimon, composer
Mar 1st - George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
Mar 1st - Richard Redhead, composer
Mar 2nd - Multatuli, writer
Mar 3rd - Eduard Douwes Dekker, [Multatuli], Dutch writer (Max Havelaar)
Mar 4th - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
Mar 6th - Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers)
Mar 7th - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer
Mar 9th - Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
Mar 13th - Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
Mar 14th - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)
Mar 17th - Patrick Edward Connor, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Mar 17th - Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
Mar 20th - Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania
Mar 21st - Frank Mori, composer
Mar 24th - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
Mar 24th - Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
Mar 25th - Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
Mar 30th - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
Apr 4th - Charles Devens Jr, Major General, Bvt (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Apr 5th - Nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist
Apr 14th - Harry Thompson Hays, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
Apr 15th - Evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
Apr 16th - Georg Curtius, German classical linguist
Apr 17th - Gottfried Conradi, composer
Apr 26th - Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
Apr 27th - Herbert Spencer, Derby England, Victorian philosopher (Social Statics)
May 4th - Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
May 4th - Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
May 12th - Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
May 22nd - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
May 23rd - James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
May 23rd - Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
May 27th - Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
May 28th - Willem Doorenbos, [Keerom], literary/critic
May 30th - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
Jun 13th - WF Hendrik, the Navigator, prince of the Netherlands/admiral
Jun 14th - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
Jun 16th - Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875)
Jun 18th - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
Jun 24th - Henry Rootes Jackson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898
Jul 2nd - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)
Jul 5th - William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
Jul 10th - Andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
Jul 22nd - Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), died in 1862
Jul 26th - John Marshall Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Jul 27th - John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Jul 29th - Clement Laird Vallandigham, MC (Union), died in 1871
Aug 3rd - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer
Aug 3rd - William Miller, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909
Aug 8th - Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brig General (Confederate)
Aug 12th - Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation
Aug 13th - George Grove, London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer
Aug 13th - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, [Pauwels Foreestier], poet (Dietsche Warande)
Aug 16th - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
Aug 20th - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
Aug 24th - Jacopo Tomadini, composer
Aug 26th - James Harlan, (Rep-Iowa)/US Secretary of Interior (1865-66)
Aug 30th - George Frederick Root, composer
Sep 3rd - George Hearst, American businessman and father of William Randolph Hearst (d. 1891)
Sep 17th - Earle Van Dorn, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Sep 17th - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
Sep 20th - George Washington Morgan, Brig General (Union volunteers)
Sep 20th - John Fulton Reynolds, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Sep 21st - Williams Carter Wickham, Brig General (Confederate Army)
Sep 23rd - Thomas Kilby Smith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Sep 26th - Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose (Exile of Sita)
Sep 28th - Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher
Oct 1st - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
Oct 5th - David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
Oct 6th - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
Oct 8th - Stanislaw Katski, composer
Oct 11th - Alfred Washington Ellet, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Oct 13th - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
Oct 20th - Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General (Confederate Army)
Oct 20th - George Jerrison Stannard, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Oct 23rd - James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
Nov 4th - Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1870
Nov 9th - Matthias de Vries, Dutch linguist (spelling)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 17th - Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
Jan 23rd - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Jan 25th - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
Jan 29th - George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81
Jan 29th - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
Feb 7th - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
Feb 12th - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71
Feb 14th - Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42
Feb 15th - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
Feb 15th - William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92
Feb 16th - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (b. 1758).
Feb 29th - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
Mar 11th - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
Mar 15th - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
Mar 22nd - Stephen Decatur, killed in a duel with Com James Barron at 41
Mar 26th - Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
Apr 5th - Henrik C Cras, lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at 81
Apr 20th - Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies
May 10th - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer, dies at 49
May 14th - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43
Jun 9th - Wilhelmina FS, princess of Prussia/Orange, dies at 68
Jun 19th - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
Jun 20th - Manuel Belgrano, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1770)
Aug 6th - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
Aug 6th - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
Aug 11th - Janos Lavotta, composer, dies at 56
Aug 28th - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
Sep 2nd - Jiaqing, Emperor of China (b. 1760)
Sep 7th - Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67
Sep 17th - Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76
Sep 21st - Joseph R Drake, US poet (American Flag), dies at 25)
Sep 26th - Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at 85
Oct 3rd - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74
Oct 12th - Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36
Oct 15th - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
Dec 21st - Charles-Francois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45