Notable Historical Events - 1820
1820 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 12 |
Royal Astronomical Society founded in England |
Jan 28 |
Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev thought to be first to sight mainland Antarctica |
Jan 28 |
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen and his expedition become the first people to sight the Antarctic mainland (continental Antarctic mountains) |
Jan 30 |
British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica claims for Britain |
Feb 6 |
1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone) |
Feb 6 |
US population announced at 9,638,453, African Americans 1,771,656 (18.4%)) |
Feb 6 |
The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia. |
Feb 23 |
Cato Street conspiracy uncovered |
Mar 3 |
Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there. |
Mar 5 |
Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays |
Mar 9 |
-11) Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die |
Mar 15 |
Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union |
Mar 25 |
Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack |
Apr 8 |
The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. |
Apr 12 |
Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. |
May 11 |
Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage. |
May 13 |
Opera "Die Jagarsbrautt" is completed |
Jun 28 |
Tomato is proven non-poisonous |
Jul 1 |
1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published |
Aug 1 |
London's Regent's Canal opens. |
Aug 7 |
1st potatoes planted in Hawaii |
Aug 14 |
1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC |
Aug 24 |
Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century. |
Sep 15 |
Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal; (see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century). |
Sep 25 |
French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself |
Oct 9 |
Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador |
Oct 20 |
Spain sells part of Florida to US for $5 million |
Nov 3 |
Cuenca Ecuador declares independence |
Nov 7 |
James Monroe re-elected US president |
Nov 18 |
Antarctica sighted by US Navy Capt Nathaniel B Palmer |
Dec 15 |
1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston |
Dec 20 |
Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50 |
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