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 ).

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 - Russia n 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

--- Lord Thomas Cochrane occupies Valdivia in name of the republic of Chile .

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

February 20 - A revolt begins in Santa María Chiquimula , Totonicapán Department of Guatemala .

February 23 - The Cato Street Conspiracy is exposed. The principals are executed on May 1 .

becomes law.

March 15 - Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. State .

April - June

April

--- Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between Electricity and Magnetism .

--- 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 )

: ''See also .''

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 )

: ''See also .''

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