1820
Year '1820' ('MDCCCXX') was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).
| Contents |
| Events of 1820 |
| January - March |
| April - June |
| July - September |
| October - December |
| Undated |
| Births |
| January - June |
| July - December |
| Deaths |
| January - June |
| July - December |
Events of 1820
January - March
★ January 1 - Constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to summoning of Spanish parliament (March 7) and restoration of 1812 Constitution (March 8) by king Ferdinand VII. (See Mid-nineteenth century Spain.)
★ January 28 - Russian expedition lead by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev approaches the Antarctic coast. (See History of Antarctica.)
★ January 29 - George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the Throne, ending the period known as the English Regency.
★ January 30 - Edward Bransfield lands on the Antarctic mainland. (See History of Antarctica.)
★ February 6
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★ Lord Thomas Cochrane occupies Valdivia in name of the republic of Chile.
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★ 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
★ February 20 - A revolt begins in Santa MarÃa Chiquimula, Totonicapán department of Guatemala.
★ February 23 - The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed. The principals are executed on May 1.
★ March 3 & 6 - Slavery in the United States: The Missouri Compromise becomes law.
★ March 15 - Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.
April - June
★ April
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★ Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
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★ Radical War is fought in Scotland.
★ May 1 - Last hanging drawing and quartering in Britain – Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded) (See Capital punishment in the United Kingdom.).
★ May 11 - Launch of HMS Beagle the ship that would later take young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
July - September
★ July - Constitutionalist revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
★ August 24 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; revolution in Lisbon, September 15 (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.).
October - December
★ October 9 - Guayaquil declare independence from Spain. (See also History of Ecuador).
★ October 25-November 20 - Congress of Troppau (Opava) between rulers of Russia, Austria and Prussia.
★ December 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1820 - James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
Undated
★ Spring- Joseph Smith, Jr. at the age 14 was visited in a vision by God and Jesus Christ known by Latter-day Saints as the First Vision.
★ The 6th Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica appears.
★ The Argentine Confederation (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in Falkland Islands.
★ Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos ''(Milos)''.
★ Robert Owen devises the labour voucher.
★ The first ascent of Black Mountain in Australia
★ Mount Rainier erupts over what is today Seattle.
Births
January - June
★ January 17 - Anne Brontë, English author (d. 1849)
★ February 8 - William Tecumseh Sherman, American Civil War general (d. 1891)
★ February 13 - James Geiss, English businessman (d. 1878)
★ February 15 - Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (d. 1906)
★ February 17 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1881)
★ February 28 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
★ March 3 - Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist and temperance movement pioneer (d. 1900)
★ March 14 - Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)
★ May 12 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
★ May 27 - Mathilde Bonaparte, Italian princess (d. 1904)
July - December
★ July 9 - John Wright Oakes, Landscape painter (d. 1887)
★ July 23 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
★ September 17 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
★ September 27 - Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (d. 1878)
★ September 29 - Comte de Chambord, claimant to the French throne (d. 1883)
★ October 5 - David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
★ October 6 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
★ November 23 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (d. 1884)
★ November 28 - Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (d. 1895)
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Deaths
January - June
★ January 17 - Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, academic (b. 1746)
★ January 29 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
★ February 11 - Karl von Fischer, architect (b. 1782)
★ February 14 - Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry (stabbed) (b. 1778)
★ March 22 - Stephen Decatur, American sailor (b. 1779)
★ May 30 - William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (b. 1787)
★ June 9 - Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (b. 1751)
★ June 19 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
July - December
★ August 12 - Manuel Lisa, fur trader (b. 1772)
★ September 3 - Benjamin Latrobe, English architect (b. 1764)
★ September 26 - Daniel Boone, American pioneer (b. 1734)
★ September 29 - Barthelemy Lafon, architect and smuggler (b. 1769)
★ October 15 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
★ December 25 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (b. 1763)
★ ''date unknown'' - William Drennan, Northern Irish poet (b. 1754)
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