Today in History for January 1820
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 3 of 3
12th - Royal Astronomical Society founded in England
28th - Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast.
30th - Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 11 of 11
9th - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer
17th - Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
18th - Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
19th - John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
20th - Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
22nd - Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet
22nd - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter (Jahresringe)
22nd - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
23rd - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer
24th - John Milton Thayer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
31st - William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
17th - Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
23rd - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
25th - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
29th - George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81
29th - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
