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The year 1820 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

ASTRONOMY

Royal Astronomical Society founded

BIOLOGY

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COMPUTING

Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar makes his "Arithmometer", the first mass-produced calculator

EXPLORATION

January 27 – Antarctica is sighted for the first time by British navy captain Edward Bransfield

PHYSICS

Hans Christian Ørsted discovers relationship between Electricity and Magnetism

Laws of Electrodynamics established by André-Marie Ampère

AWARDS

Copley Medal - Hans Christian Ørsted

BIRTHS

March 24 - Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (d. 1891 ), Physicist .

April 16 - Victor Alexandre Puiseux (d. 1883 ), Mathematician .

July 2 – William John Macquorn Rankine (d. 1872 ), Physicist .

August 2 - John Tyndall (d. 1893 ), Physicist .

DEATHS

June 19 – Joseph Banks (b. 1743 ), Naturalist .