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Years:

·       1817

·       1818

·       1819

·       1820

·       1821

·       1822

·       1823

 

1820 in topic

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1820 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar

1820
MDCCCXX

Ab urbe condita

2573

Armenian calendar

1269
ԹՎ ՌՄԿԹ

Assyrian calendar

6570

Balinese saka calendar

1741–1742

Bengali calendar

1227

Berber calendar

2770

British Regnal year

60 Geo. 3 – 1 Geo. 4

Buddhist calendar

2364

Burmese calendar

1182

Byzantine calendar

7328–7329

Chinese calendar

己卯 (Earth Rabbit)
4516 or 4456
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4517 or 4457

Coptic calendar

1536–1537

Discordian calendar

2986

Ethiopian calendar

1812–1813

Hebrew calendar

5580–5581

Hindu calendars

 - Vikram Samvat

1876–1877

 - Shaka Samvat

1741–1742

 - Kali Yuga

4920–4921

Holocene calendar

11820

Igbo calendar

820–821

Iranian calendar

1198–1199

Islamic calendar

1235–1236

Japanese calendar

Bunsei 3
(文政3年)

Javanese calendar

1747–1748

Julian calendar

Gregorian minus 12 days

Korean calendar

4153

Minguo calendar

92 before ROC
民前92

Nanakshahi calendar

352

Thai solar calendar

2362–2363

Tibetan calendar

阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
1946 or 1565 or 793
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
1947 or 1566 or 794

 

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February 6Capture of Valdivia

1820 (MDCCCXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1820th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 820th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1820s decade. As of the start of 1820, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Contents

·       1Events

o   1.1January–March

o   1.2April–June

o   1.3July–September

o   1.4October–December

o   1.5Date unknown

·       2Births

o   2.1January–June

o   2.2July–December

o   2.3Date unknown

·       3Deaths

o   3.1January–June

o   3.2July–December

·       4References

Events[edit]

January–March[edit]

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February 23Cato Street Conspiracy

·       January 1 – Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7).

·       January 20 – Indiana University Bloomington is founded as the Indiana State Seminary (renamed Indiana College in 1846).

·       January 28 (NS) – History of Antarctica: An Imperial Russian Navy expedition, led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, sights the Antarctic ice sheet.[1]

·       January 29 – George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the throne, on the death at Windsor Castle of his father George III (after 59 years on the throne), ending the period known as the British Regency. There will be a gap of 21 years before the title Prince of Wales is next used.

·       January 30 – History of AntarcticaIrish Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield lands on the mainland of Antarctica.[1]

·       February 6

·       Capture of ValdiviaLord Cochrane occupies Valdivia in the name of the Republic of Chile.

·       86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone.

·       February 14 – Minh Mạng starts to rule in Vietnam.

·       February 20 – A revolt begins in Santa María ChiquimulaTotonicapán department of Guatemala.

·       February 23 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder the Cabinet of the United Kingdom is exposed in England; the principals are the last to suffer decapitation, following their hanging for treason outside Newgate Prison in London, on May 1.

·       March 3 and March 6 – Slavery in the United States: The Missouri Compromise becomes law, allowing admission of Missouri and Maineslave and free states respectively, as U.S. states.

·       March 9 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain accepts the new constitution, beginning the Trienio Liberal.

·       March 10 – The Royal Astronomical Society is founded in London.

·       March 15 – Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.

April–June[edit]

·       April – Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

·       April 1 – A Proclamation, signed "By order of the Committee of Organisation for forming a Provisional Government", begins the "Radical War" in Scotland.

·       April 8 – The statue of the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos, c.150 BC-125 BC) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos, by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.

·       April 12 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

·       April 15 – King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart.

·       May 1 – The last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain is meted out to the Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded).

·       May 11 – HMS Beagle (the ship that will later take young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage) is launched at Woolwich Dockyard.

·       May 20 – John Stuart Mill sets out on his formative boyhood trip to France.

·       June 5 – Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom, returns to England after six years abroad in Italy, where she had been carrying on an affair; since ascending the throne in January, the King has sought to receive his government's approval for a divorce. [2]

·       June 10 – Sir Thomas Munro is appointed as the British colonial Governor of the Madras Presidency, which encompasses most of southern India[3]

·       June 12 – Élie Decazes, leader of the opposition in France's Chamber of Deputies, successfully introduces the "Law of the Double Vote", a proposal to add to the 258 existing legislators by creating 172 seats that would be "selected by special electoral colleges" made up of the wealthiest 25% of voters in each of France's departments. [4]

·       June 12 – Delegates in St. Louis, Missouri Territory approve a proposed state constitution, proclaiming that they "do mutually agree to form and establish a free and independent republic (sic), by the name of "The State of Missouri". [5]

·       June 29 – The cause of action that will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court case known simply as The Antelope arises, when a U.S. Treasury cutter captures a ship of the same name, which is transporting 281 Africans who had been captured as slaves, in violation of the 1819 U.S. law prohibiting the slave trade. [6]

July–September[edit]

·       July – A revolt under Guglielmo Pepe forces Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies to sign a constitution modeled on the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

·       July 20 – Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in BrayCo. WicklowIreland under the title Bray Male School. It is the oldest school in Bray, and its notable pupils will include President of Ireland Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh.

·       July 26 – Union Chain Bridge, a wrought iron suspension bridge designed by Captain Samuel Brown, opens across the River Tweed, between England and Scotland. Its span of 449 ft (137 m) is the world's longest for a vehicular bridge at this time.[7]

·       August 24 – A Constitutionalist insurrection breaks out at OportoPortugal.

·       September 2 – The Daoguang Emperor succeeds the throne of the Qing Dynasty in China.

·       September 15 – Revolution breaks out in Lisbon, against John VI of Portugal.

October–December[edit]

·       October 9 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.

·       October 25November 20 – The Congress of Troppau (Opava) is convened between the rulers of Russia, Austria and Prussia.

·       November 17 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)

·       November 20 – After the sinking of the American whaleship Essex of Nantucket, by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats. They eventually resort, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive.

·       December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1820James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.

·       December 20 – The town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, is incorporated.

Date unknown[edit]

·       Early Spring – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, receives his First Vision in Palmyra, New York. (Possibly 26 March[8])

·       The Argentine Confederation (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in the Falkland Islands.

·       Robert Owen devises the labour voucher.

·       Mount Rainier erupts over what is today Seattle.

·       18,957 black slaves leave LuandaAngola.

·       The 6th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica appears.

·       Construction work is completed on the Citadelle Laferrière in Haiti, the largest fortification in the Americas.

·       Anchor coinage is issued for use in some British colonies.

Births[edit]

January–June[edit]

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William Sherman

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Susan B. Anthony

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Herbert Spencer

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Florence Nightingale

·       January 10 – Louisa Lane Drew, actress, prominent theater manager, grandmother of the Barrymores (d. 1897)

·       January 17 – Anne Brontë, English author (d. 1849)

·       January 20 – Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois, French chemist and mineralogist (d. 1886)

·       January 31 – Concepción Arenal, Spanish feminist writer, activist (d. 1893)

·       February 1 – George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)

·       February 6 – Thomas C. Durant, American railroad financier (d. 1885)

·       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)

·       Arvid Posse, 2nd Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1901)

·       February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian violinist, composer (d. 1881)

·       February 28 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)

·       March 2 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (d. 1887)

·       March 3 – Henry D. CogswellAmerican temperance movement pioneer who endowed a number of Cogswell fountains (d. 1900)

·       March 4 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)

·       March 9 – Samuel BlatchfordAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1893)

·       March 17 – Martin Jenkins Crawford, American politician (d. 1883)

·       March 20 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania's first reigning Domnitor (d. 1873)

·       March 14 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)

·       April 27 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (d. 1903)

·       April 26 – Alice Cary, American poet, sister to Phoebe Cary (1824-1871) (d. 1871)

·       May 5 – Elkanah Billings, Canadian paleontologist (d. 1876)

·       May 12 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)

·       May 23 – Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)

·       May 27 – Mathilde Bonaparte, Italian princess (d. 1904)

July–December[edit]

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Friedrich Engels

·       July 5 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, engineer (d. 1872)

·       July 9 – John Wright Oakes, landscape painter (d. 1887)

·       July 22 – Oliver Mowat, Canadian lawyer, politician (d. 1903)

·       July 23 – Julia Gardiner TylerFirst Lady of the United States (d. 1889)

·       September 17

·       Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)

·       Earl van Dorn, American Confederate general (d. 1863)

·       September 20 – John F. Reynolds, American general (d. 1863)

·       September 27 – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (d. 1878)

·       September 29 – Henri, Count of Chambord, claimant to the French throne (d. 1883)

·       October 5 – David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)

·       October 6 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)

·       October 16 – Gillis Bildt, 5th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1894)

·       October 20 – Benjamin F. Cheatham, Confederate general (d. 1886)

·       November 23

·       Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (d. 1884)

·       Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (d. 1898)

·       November 28 – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (d. 1895)

·       December 21 – William H. Osborn, American railroad executive (d. 1894)

Date unknown[edit]

·       Song Qing, Chinese general (d. 1902)

Deaths[edit]

January–June[edit]

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King George III

·       January 17 – Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, Swiss-born academic (b. 1746)

·       January 29 – King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

·       February 5 – William Drennan, Irish physician, poet and radical politician (b. 1754)

·       February 11 – Karl von Fischer, German architect (b. 1782)

·       February 14 – Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, French noble (stabbed) (b. 1778)

·       March 11 – Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter of historical scenes (b. 1738)

·       March 22 – Stephen Decatur, American sailor (b. 1779)

·       April 8 – Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, liberal democrat who used his wealth to create agricultural colonies at the Red River Valley, for displaced crofters (b. 1771)

·       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, English naturalist, botanist (b. 1743)

·       June 20 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, general in the Independence War (b. 1770)

July–December[edit]

Jiaqing Emperor

·       August 12 – Manuel Lisa, Spanish-born American fur trader (b. 1772)

·       September 2 – Jiaqing Emperor, Chinese emperor (b. 1760)

·       September 3 – Benjamin Latrobe, English architect (b. 1764)

·       September 4 – Timothy Brown, English banker, merchant and radical (b. 1743/1744)

·       September 16 – Nguyễn Du, Vietnamese poet (b. 1766)

·       September 18 – Mariana Joaquina Pereira Coutinho, Portuguese courtier, salonniére (b. 1748)

·       September 26 – Daniel Boone, American pioneer (b. 1734)

·       September 29 – Barthelemy Lafon, Creole architect, smuggler (b. 1769)

·       October 15 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)

·       November 8 – Lavinia Stoddard, American poet and school founder (b. 1787)

·       December 25 – Joseph Fouché, French statesman (b. 1763)

·       December 29 – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg; German regent, social reformer (b. 1769)

References[edit]

1.     Jump up to:a b Jones, A. G. E. (1982). Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent?. Caedmon of Whitby. ISBN 0-905355-25-3.

2.     ^ Christopher Hibbert, Wellington: A Personal History (Da Capo Press, 1999) p220

3.     ^ T. H. BeagleholeThomas Munro and the Development of Administrative Policy in Madras 1792-1818 (Cambridge University Press, 22010) p121

4.     ^ Munro Price, The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814-1848 (Pan Macmillan, 2010) p108

5.     ^ "Missouri", in Constitutional Documents of the United States of America 1776-1860", ed. by Horst Dippel (K. G. Saur, 2007) p221

6.     ^ "Antelope Case", by John T. Noonan, Jr., in Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, (Greenwood, 1997) p66

7.     ^ Drewry, Charles Stewart (1832). "Section III". A Memoir of Suspension Bridges: Comprising The History Of Their Origin And Progress. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. pp. 37–41. Retrieved 2011-08-16.

8.     ^ Lefgren, J. C. (October 2002). "Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning: Sun 26 Mar 1820?". Meridian Magazine. (available at http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2002/vision.html)