1820

Years: 1817 1818 1819 - 1820 - 1821 1822 1823
Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1820 in art 1820 in literature 1820 in science 1820 in music 1820 in sports List of state leaders in 1820 List of religious leaders in 1820

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

January 1 - Constitutionalist military insurrection at CÃÂ¡diz leads to summoning of Spanish parliament (March 7) and restoration of 1812 Constitution (March 8) by king Ferdinand VII.
January 29 - George the Prince Regent becomes king George IV of the United Kingdom, ending the period known as the English Regency.
January 30 - Edward Bransfield discovers Antarctica.
February 6 - 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
February 23 - The Cato Street conspiracy is exposed. The principals are executed on May 1
March 3 & March 6 - The Missouri Compromise becomes law in the United States.
March 15 - Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state.
May 1 - Last hanging drawing and quartering in Britain ÃÂ Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded)
Spring - Joseph Smith, Jr at age 14 claims to be visited in a vision by God and Jesus Christ (Tradition holds that this occurred on April 6)
July - Constitutionalist revolution in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
August 24 - Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; revolution in Lisbon, September 15
October 9 - Guayaquil declare independence from Ecuador.
October 25-November 20 - Congress of Troppau (Opava) between rulers of Russia, Austria and Prussia
November - James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
November 17 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
6th Edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica begins appearing.
Republic of Buenos Aires (Argentina) establishes penal colony in Falkland Islands.
Venus de Milo found on island of Melos.
Hans Christian Orsted discovers relationship between electricity and magnetism.
In Salem, Massachusetts, general Robert Jackson eats a tomato in public to prove it is not poisonous

Births

January 17 - Anne BrontÃÂ«, author
February 8 - William Tecumseh Sherman, soldier (+ 1891)
February 15 - Susan B. Anthony, US suffragist
February 28 - John Tenniel, illustrator
March 14 - Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
May 12 - Florence Nightingale, nurse (+ 1910)
May 27 - Mathilde Bonaparte, hostess and socialite
July 23 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, later First Lady of the United States.
September 27 - Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, classical scholar
September 29 - Henry, Duke of Bordeaux, posthumous son of the Duke of Berry, future Comte de Chambord and claimant to the French throne
Harriet Tubman, anti-slavery resistance movement leader

Deaths

January 29 - King George III of the United Kingdom
February 14 - Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, stabbed on February 13
March 22 - Stephen Decatur, sailor
June 19 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist
September 3 - Benjamin Latrobe, architect