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Years: 1817 1818 1819 - 1820 - 1821 1822 1823
Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

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Events

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.
January 28 - Russian expedition lead by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev approaches the Antarctic coast.
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 lands on the Antarctic mainland.
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 & 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 – 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 (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
September 28 -In Salem, Massachusetts, Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson eats a tomato in public to prove it is not poisonous.
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).

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6th Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica begins appearing.
Republic of Buenos Aires (Argentina) establishes penal colony in Falkland Islands.
Venus de Milo found on island of Melos.
Hans Christian Ørsted discovers relationship between electricity and magnetism.

Births

January 17 - Anne Brontë, English author (d. 1849)
February 8 - William Tecumseh Sherman, soldier (d. 1891)
February 15 - Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist (d. 1906)
February 17 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
February 28 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
March 14 - Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)
May 12 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse (d. 1910)
May 27 - Mathilde Bonaparte, hostess and socialite (d. 1904)
July 23 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
September 27 - Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (d. 1878)
September 29 - Henry, Duke of Bordeaux, posthumous son of the Duke of Berry, future Comte de Chambord and 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 anti-slavery resistance movement leader (d. 1913)

Deaths

January 29 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
February 14 - Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, stabbed on February 13 (b. 1778)
March 22 - Stephen Decatur, American sailor (b. 1779)
June 19 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (b. 1743)
September 3 - Benjamin Latrobe, English architect (b. 1764)

Categories: 1820