1820
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| Years: | 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1820 MDCCCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2573 |
| Armenian calendar | 1269 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԹ |
| Chinese calendar | 4456/4516-11-16 (己卯年十一月十六日) — to — 4457/4517-11-26(庚辰年十一月廿六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1812 – 1813 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5580 – 5581 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1875 – 1876 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1742 – 1743 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4921 – 4922 |
| Iranian calendar | 1198 – 1199 |
| Islamic calendar | 1235 – 1236 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2363 |
1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Contents |
Events
January
- 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
- February 6 - Lord Thomas Cochrane occupy Valdivia in name of the republic of Chile.
- February 6 - 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
March
- 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
- 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 (Tradition holds that this occurred on April 6)
- April - Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
- April - Radical War in Scotland
May
- 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 took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
June-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
- 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
NovemberDecember
- December 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1820 - James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
Unknown date
- The 6th Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica begins appearing.
- The Argentine Confederation (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in Falkland Islands.
- Venus de Milo found on the island of Melos.
Births
- 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 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 6 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
- November 23 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (d. 1884)
- November 28 - Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (d. 1895)
- Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist activist (d. 1913)
Deaths
- January 29 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- 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 19 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
- September 3 - Benjamin Latrobe, English architect (b. 1764)
- October 15 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal (b. 1771)
- December 25 - Joseph Fouché, French statesman (b. 1763)
- William Drennan, Northern Irish poet (b. 1754)
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