1820 Calendar
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1820 Historical Event(s)
January 30, 1820
– Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
February 4, 1820
– The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
February 6, 1820
– The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
February 23, 1820
– Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
March 3, 1820
– The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
April 12, 1820
– Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
May 11, 1820
– Launch of HMS Beagle, the ship that took Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
October 9, 1820
– Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
November 17, 1820
– Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him).
November 20, 1820
– An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
Who Were Born On 1820?
January 22, 1820
– Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
February 17, 1820
– Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (d. 1881)
April 17, 1820
– Alexander Joy Cartwright, Inventor of the Modern Game of Baseball (d. 1892)
May 27, 1820
– Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
May 30, 1820
– Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
July 2, 1820
– George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and 5th and 7th Governor of the Oregon Territory (d. 1878)
August 2, 1820
– John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
August 13, 1820
– Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)
October 5, 1820
– David Wilber, American politician (d. 1890)
October 6, 1820
– Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)