1820
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This article is about the year 1820.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1817 1818 1819 – 1820 – 1821 1822 1823 |
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| Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – South Africa – US – UK |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1820 MDCCCXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2573 |
| Armenian calendar | 1269 ԹՎ ՌՄԿԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6570 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -24–-23 |
| 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 | 己卯年十一月十六日 (4456/4516-11-16) — to —
庚辰年十一月廿六日(4457/4517-11-26) |
| Coptic calendar | 1536–1537 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1812–1813 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5580–5581 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1876–1877 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1742–1743 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4921–4922 |
| Holocene calendar | 11820 |
| Iranian calendar | 1198–1199 |
| Islamic calendar | 1235–1236 |
| Japanese calendar | Bunsei 3 (文政3年) |
| Korean calendar | 4153 |
| Minguo calendar | 92 before ROC 民前92年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2363 |
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Year 1820 (MDCCCXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
[edit] Events
[edit] January–March
- January 1 – Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7).
- January 28 (NS) – History of Antarctica: An Imperial Russian Navy expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev sights the coast of Antarctica.[1]
- January 29 – George IV of the United Kingdom ascends 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 Antarctica: British Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield lands on the mainland of Antarctica.[1]
- February 6
- Lord 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 Mang starts to rule in Vietnam.
- February 20 – A revolt begins in Santa María Chiquimula, Totonicapán department of Guatemala.
- February 23 – The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed in England; the principals are executed on May 1.
- March 3 and March 6 – Slavery in the United States: The Missouri Compromise becomes law.
- March 9 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain accepts the new constitution, beginning the Trienio Liberal.
- March 15 – Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.
[edit] April–June
- 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 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.
[edit] July–September
- July – A Constitutionalist revolution occurs in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- July 20 – Saint Cronan's Boys National School opens in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland 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 – Opening of Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland, a wrought iron suspension bridge designed by Captain Samuel Brown. Its span of 449 ft (137 m) is the world's longest for a vehicular bridge at this time.[2]
- August 24 – A Constitutionalist insurrection breaks out at Oporto, Portugal.
- September 15 – Revolution breaks out in Lisbon.
[edit] October–December
- October 9 – History of Ecuador: Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
- October 25–November 20 – The Congress of Troppau (Opava) is convened between the rulers of Russia, Austria and Prussia.
- November 20 – After the sinking of the whaleship Essex of Nantucket by a whale 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: James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
- December 20 – The town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, is incorporated.
[edit] Date unknown
- The 6th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica appears.
- The Argentine Confederation (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in the Malvinas.
- Venus de Milo is found on the island of Melos (Milos).
- Robert Owen devises the labour voucher.
- Mount Rainier erupts over what is today Seattle.
- Joseph Smith, Jr. receives his First Vision in the spring in Palmyra, New York.
- 18,957 black slaves leave Luanda, Angola.
- Indiana University is founded as the Indiana State Seminary and renamed the Indiana College in 1846, to later be renamed Indiana University.
- 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.
[edit] Births
[edit] January–June
- January 10 – Louisa Lane Drew, actress and prominent theater manager, grandmother of the Barrymores (d. 1897)
- January 17 – Anne Brontë, English author (d. 1849)
- February 1 – George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
- 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 2 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (d. 1887)
- March 3 – Henry D. Cogswell, American philanthropist and temperance movement pioneer (d. 1900)
- March 4 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
- 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 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)
[edit] 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 – Henry, 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)
- November 23 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (d. 1884)
- November 28 – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (d. 1895)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] 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)
- June 20 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician and general in the Independence War (b. 1770)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Date unknown
- William Drennan, Northern Irish poet (b. 1754)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Jones, A. G. E. (1982). Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent?. Caedmon of Whitby. ISBN 0905355253.
- ^ 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=Hw8LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
