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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.
March 3, 1820
– The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
March 15, 1820
– Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
April 8, 1820
– The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
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.
August 24, 1820
– Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
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).
Who Were Born On 1820?
February 1, 1820
– George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
March 4, 1820
– Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
March 9, 1820
– Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
May 4, 1820
– Julia Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
May 23, 1820
– James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (d. 1887)
May 27, 1820
– Mathilde Bonaparte, French princess and socialite (d. 1904)
July 5, 1820
– William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist (d. 1872)
August 13, 1820
– Sir George Grove, English music historian (d. 1900)
September 20, 1820
– John F. Reynolds, American Civil War general (d. 1863)