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Historical Events for the Year 1820

  • 28th January » A Imperial Russia or Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
  • 30th January » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
  • 4th February » The Chilean Navy under the command of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald named Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
  • 6th February » The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a colonization named settlement in present-day History of Liberia e.g Liberia.
  • 23rd February » Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland named British cabinet ministers is exposed.
  • 3rd March » The United States Congress or U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
  • 6th March » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union (American Civil War) or Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state (United States) called free state, and make
  • 15th March » Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
  • 8th April » The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean Sea called Aegean island of Melos.
  • 12th April » Alexander Ypsilantis (1792-1828) or Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman Empire named Ottoman rule over Greece.
  • 11th May » HMS e.g Beagle, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched.
  • 24th August » Constitutionalism Constitutionalist History of Portugal Crises of the nineteenth century insurrection at Porto Oporto, Portugal.
  • 15th September » History of Portugal Crises of the nineteenth century called Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • 9th October » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
  • 17th November » Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Antarctic Peninsula e.g Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)

Famous Birthdays in 1820

  • 17th January » Anne Brontë, English author and poet (d. 1849)
  • 21st January » Joseph Wolf, German illustrator (d. 1899)
  • 31st January » William B. Washburn, American politician, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
  • 1st February » George Hendric Houghton, American clergyman and theologian (d. 1897)
  • 8th February » William Tecumseh Sherman, American general (d. 1891)
  • 15th February » Susan B. Anthony, American activist (d. 1906)
  • 17th February » Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (d. 1898)
  • 17th February » Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
  • 28th February » John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
  • 2nd March » Multatuli, Dutch author (d. 1887)
  • 4th March » Francesco Bentivegna, Italian rebel leader (d. 1856)
  • 9th March » Samuel Blatchford, American jurist (d. 1893)
  • 14th March » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)
  • 17th March » Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
  • 24th March » A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
  • 24th March » Fanny Crosby, American composer and songwriter (d. 1915)
  • 27th March » Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
  • 27th March » Elias David Sassoon, Iraqi-Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1880)
  • 30th March » Anna Sewell, English author (d. 1878)
  • 6th April » Nadar (photographer) called Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (d. 1910)
  • 17th April » Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented Baseball (d. 1892)
  • 27th April » Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1903)
  • 4th May » Julia Gardiner Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
  • 12th May » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse (d. 1910)
  • 22nd May » Alexander Fesca, German pianist and composer (d. 1849)
  • 23rd May » James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (d. 1887)
  • 23rd May » Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 1891)
  • 27th May » Mathilde Bonaparte, Italian-French daughter of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1904)
  • 30th May » Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (d. 1890)
  • 14th June » John Bartlett (publisher) known as John Bartlett, American author and publisher (d. 1905)
  • 16th June » Athanase Josué Coquerel, Dutch-French theologian (d. 1875)
  • 2nd July » George Law Curry, American publisher and politician, and 5th List of Governors of Oregon or Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
  • 5th July » William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1872)
  • 2nd August » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (d. 1893)
  • 13th August » George Grove, English musicologist and historian (d. 1900)
  • 16th August » Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1892)
  • 2nd September » Lucretia Hale, American journalist and author (d. 1900)
  • 3rd September » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (d. 1891)
  • 17th September » Émile Augier, French playwright (d. 1889)
  • 20th September » John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)
  • 26th September » Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian philosopher, painter, and academic (d. 1891)
  • 5th October » David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
  • 6th October » Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
  • 13th October » John William Dawson, Canadian geologist and academic (d. 1899)
  • 23rd November » Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and author (d. 1884)
  • 28th November » Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher and author (d. 1895)
  • 5th December » Afanasy Fet, Russian poet and author (d. 1892)
  • 19th December » Mary Livermore, American journalist and activist (d. 1905)
  • 21st December » William H. Osborn, American businessman (d. 1894)
  • 26th December » Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)

Famous Deaths in History for 1820

  • 23rd January » Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
  • 29th January » George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
  • 16th February » Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
  • 29th February » Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian and critic (b. 1743)
  • 11th March » Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
  • 12th March » Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) called Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer (b. 1764)
  • 15th March » Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest and saint (b. 1751)
  • 22nd March » Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
  • 19th June » Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
  • 20th June » Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian general, economist, and politician (b. 1770)
  • 28th August » Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
  • 2nd September » Jiaqing Emperor of China (b. 1760)
  • 4th September » Timothy Brown (radical) named Timothy Brown, English banker and merchant (b. 1743/4)
  • 26th September » Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (b. 1734)
  • 15th October » Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (b. 1771)