1820

January 12

• Royal Astronomical Society founded in England. [1]

January 17

• Daniel W Wyttenbach Dutch classicist/historian, dies at age 73. [1]

January 25

• Joseph F Weigl German/Austria violin cellist, dies at age 79. [1]

January 29

• George III, king of Great Britain (1760-1820), dies at age 81. [1] [309.80]

January 30

• Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (United Kingdom claim). [1]

February 6

• 86 free black colonists sail from New York City, New York to Sierra Leone, Africa. [1]
• US population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%)). [1]

February 7

• Samuel Adams Holyoke composer, dies at age 57. [1]

February 12

• Guillaume Albert Teniers composer, dies at age 71. [1]

February 14

• Charles F Duke of Berry, murdered at age 42. [1]

February 15

• Pierre-Joseph Cambon member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at age 63. [1]
• William Ellery US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at age 92. [1]

February 23

• Cato Street conspiracy uncovered. [1]

February 28

• Birth of John Tenniel England, cartoonist/illustrator (Alice in Wonderland). [1]

March 3

• Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri. [1]

March 5

• Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays. [1]

March 9

• James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House. [1]
• Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die. [1]

March 11

• Benjamin West British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at age 81. [1]

March 15

• Maine admitted as 23rd state. [1]

March 22

• Stephen Decatur killed in a duel with Com James Barron, at age 41. [1]

March 25

• Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack. [1]

March 26

• Jean-Etienne Despreaux composer, dies at age 71. [1]

April 5

• Henrik C Cras lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii), dies at age 81. [1]

April 8

• The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos. [5]

April 20

• Arthur Young author (Annals of Agriculture), dies. [1]

May 10

• Matthaus Stegmayer composer, dies at age 49. [1]

May 13

• The opera "Die Jäearsbraut" is completed. [1]

May 14

• Paul Friedrich Struck composer, dies at age 43. [1]

June 28

• Tomato is proven nonpoisonous. [1]

August 1

• London's Regent's Canal opens. [5]

August 7

• First potatoes planted in Hawaii. [1]

September 26

• Daniel Boone, frontiersman, dies in Missouri at age 85. [1] [5]

October 9

• Guayaquil, Ecuador declares its freedom from Ecuador. [1]

November 3

• Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence. [1]

November 18

• US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica. [1]

December 6

• US President James Monroe re-elected, Daniel D Tompkins Vice-President. [1]

December 15

• First general pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston. [1]

December 20

• Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50. [1]

December 21

• Charles-François Dumonchau composer, dies at age 45. [1]

1821

January 4

• Elizabeth Ann Seton first native-born American saint, dies in Maryland. [1]

January 17

• México permits Moses Austin and 300 US families to settle in Texas. [1]

January 21

• Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, four die. [1]

January 25

• Johan Valckenier Dutch politician/patriot, dies at age 62. [1]

January 28

• Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica. [1]

February 8

• Paul Anton Wineberger composer, dies at age 62. [1]

February 12

• Mercantile Library of the City of New York opens. [1]

February 22

• Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million. [1]

February 23

• College of Apothecaries organized in Philadelphia; first US pharmacy college. [1]
• John Keats Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at age 25 in Rome. [1]
• Marie-Anne Collot French sculptor, dies. [1]

February 24

• Mexico gains independence from Spain. [1]

March 5

• Monroe is first President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sunday. [1]

March 14

• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York). [1]

March 23

• Bernhard Anselm Weber pianist/conductor/composer, dies at age 56. [1]

March 25

• Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day). [1]

March 26

• Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess" premieres in Vienna. [1]

April 9

• Felix Maximo Lopez composer, dies at age 78. [1]

April 20

• Franz K Achard German physicist/chemist, dies at age 67. [1]

April 22

• John Crome [Old Crome] English landscape painter/etcher, dies at age 52. [1]

May 5

• Death of Napoleon Bonaparte (emperor of France, 1799-1815) on Saint Helena island, at age 52, of stomach cancer or poisoning. [1] [129]

May 15

• John Wall Calcott composer, dies at age 54. [1]

May 30

• James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose. [1]

May 31

• Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, first US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore. [1]

June 18

• The opera "Der Freischütz" is produced (Berlin). [1]

June 21

• African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (New York City). [1]

June 24

• Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas. [1]

July 10

• The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain. [5]

July 28

• Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day). [1]

August 10

• Missouri admitted as 24th US state. [1]

September 15

• Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ. [1]

September 27

• Mexican Empire declares its independence. [1]
• Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw. [1]

November 9

• First US pharmacy college holds first classes, Philadelphia. [1]

December 1

• Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) proclaims independence from Spain. [1]

December 16

• Claire countess the Rémusat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies at age 41. [1]

December 17

• Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons. [1]

December 20

• Gian Francesco Fortunati composer, dies at age 75. [1]

December 28

• Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna. [1]

December 29

• Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael South Netherlands general, dies at age 61. [1]

December 30

• Angelo Maria Benincori composer, dies at age 42. [1]

1822

January 5

• Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire. [1]

January 7

• First printing in Hawaii. [1]
• Liberia colonized by Americans. [1]

January 14

• Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell German landscape painter, dies at age 72. [1]

February 2

• Jean-Baptiste Davaux composer, dies at age 79. [1]

February 4

• Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa. [1]

February 5

• Ali Pasha of Janina (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about age 77. [1]

February 9

• American Indian Society organizes. [1]

February 10

• Albert-Kasimir duke of Saxon-Teschen/Governor of Hungary, dies at age 83. [1]

February 19

• Jeronymo Francisco de Lima composer, dies at age 78. [1]

February 22

• Johann Ignaz Walter composer, dies at age 66. [1]

February 23

• Boston is incorporated as a city. [1]

March 2

• Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber composer, dies at age 40. [1]

March 3

• Franz Adam Veichtner composer, dies at age 81. [1]

March 9

• Charles M Graham of New York patents artificial teeth. [1]

March 16

• Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano. [1]

March 19

• Boston Massachusetts incorporated as a city. [1]

March 22

• Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna. [1]
• New York Horticultural Society founded. [1]

March 30

• US Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory. [1]

April 3

• Friedrich Bertuch writer, dies. [1]

April 6

• Franz Xaver Partsch composer, dies at age 62. [1]

April 13

• Gaetano Valeri composer, dies at age 61. [1]

April 25

• Frederick "William" Herschel German/British astronomer, dies at age 83. [1]

May 1

• John Phillips becomes first mayor of Boston. [1]

May 3

• Society for the Propagation of the Faith starts (Lyon, France). [1]

May 9

• Charles Duquesnoy composer, dies at age 62. [1]

May 15

• Christian Ludwig Dieter composer, dies at age 64. [1]

May 24

• At Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain. [1]

May 30

• House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged). [1]

June 9

• Charles Graham receives first patent for false teeth. [1]

June 18

• Part of US-Canadian boundary determined. [1]

July 2

• Denmark Vesey and five aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, South Carolina. [1]

July 25

• General Agustín de Iturbide crowned Agustín I, first emperor of México. [1]

July 30

• James Varick becomes first bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church. [1]

August 25

• William Herschel discovered Uranus, dies at age 85. [1]

September 7

• Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day). [1]

October 8

• First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley. [1]

October 12

• Second eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain. [1]

December 1

• Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil. [1]
• Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran. [1]

December 2

• In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US. [1]

December 6

• Veterinary school in Utrecht opens. [1]

December 12

• México officially recognized as an independent nation by US. [1]

December 15

• Ferenc Verseghy composer, dies at age 65. [1]

December 29

• Albert Christoph Dies composer, dies at age 67. [1]

1823

January 17

• Zacharius Werner German playwright, dies at age 36. [1]

January 27

• President Monroe appoints first US ambassadors to South America. [1]

February 2

• Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice. [1]

February 3

• The opera "Semiramide" is produced (Venice). [1]

February 7

• Ann Radcliffe (Ward) English poet/author of horror novels, dies at age 58. [1]

February 16

• Johann Gottfried Schict composer, dies at age 69. [1]

February 20

• English Captain James Weddell reaches 74 degrees 15' S, 1520 km from South Pole. [1]

February 26

• John P Kemble English actor/director (Covent Garden), dies at age 66. [1]

March 11

• First normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord Vermont. [1]

March 18

• Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval composer, dies at age 69. [1]

March 24

• Cornelis van Foreest Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at age 66. [1]

March 25

• Coelestin Jungbauer composer, dies at age 75. [1]

April 22

• Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London. [1]

April 24

• Eugène Scribes "Le Menteur Véridique", premieres in Paris France. [1]

May 8

• "Home Sweet Home" first sung (London). [1]

May 10

• First steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling. [1]

May 15

• Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky composer, dies at age 69. [1]

June 1

• Louis Nicholas Davout French field marshall, dies at age 53. [1]

July 1

• United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico. [1]

September 10

• Simon Bolivar named president of Peru. [1]

September 21

• Moroni first appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith. [1]

October 12

• Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs). [1] [5]

December 2

• President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine". [1]

December 3

• Joseph Pouteau composer, dies at age 84. [1]

December 7

• Johann Gottlieb Schwencke composer, dies at age 79. [1]

December 13

• Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London. [1]

December 14

• Vincenzo Cuoco Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at age 53. [1]

December 19

• Georgia passes first US state birth registration law. [1]
• Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel composer, dies at age 67. [1]

December 20

• Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde" premieres in Vienna. [1]

December 23

• "Visit from Saint Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (New York) Sentinel. [1]

December 24

• Philipp Christoph Kayser composer, dies at age 68. [1]

1824

January 10

• Victor Emanuel I king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at age 64. [1]

January 21

• Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa. [1]

January 26

• Edward Jenner discoverer (vaccination), dies. [1]
• Théodore Géricault French painter (Grand Derby d'Epsom), dies. [1]

January 28

• William Kneass becomes third US chief engraver (1824-40). [1]

January 29

• Louise MC countess of Albany Henegouws salon owner, dies at age 71. [1]

February 1

• Maria Theresia von Paradis composer, dies at age 64. [1]

February 4

• J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public. [1]

February 8

• Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia), dies at age 71. [1]

February 9

• Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich German poet, dies at age 49. [1]

February 10

• Simon Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Perú. [1]

February 16

• Athenaeum founded. [1]

February 22

• John Davy composer, dies at age 60. [1]

March 2

• Interstate commerce comes under federal control. [1]

March 3

• Giovanni Battista Viotti Italian violist/composer, dies at age 70. [1]

March 7

• Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto" premieres in Venice. [1]

March 9

• Jacobus J Cramer priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at age 79. [1]

March 11

• US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs. [1]

March 12

• Heinrich Carl Ebell composer, dies at age 48. [1]

March 17

• England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement. [1]

March 21

• Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses. [1]

March 22

• Johann Melchior Dreyer composer, dies at age 76. [1]

March 26

• First performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis". [1]

April 15

• Theodorus F van Capellen Vice-Admiral (Algiers), dies at age 61. [1]

April 17

• Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54 degrees 40' N. [1]

April 18

• Edward Jones composer, dies at age 72. [1]

April 19

• [George Gorden Noel] "Lord" Byron poet, dies at age 36. [1]

April 24

• Herman Muntinghe theologist (History of Mankind), dies at age 71. [1]

May 2

• Goethe visits Ettersberg (Buchenwald). [1]

May 7

• Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna. [1]

May 15

• Alexander Campbell composer, dies at age 60. [1]

May 24

• Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee. [1]

May 26

• Brazil is recognized by US. [1]

June 8

• Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec. [1]

July 24

• Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of first public. [1]

September 26

• Kapiolani defies Pele (Hawaiian volcano goddess) and lives. [1]

October 4

• Mexico becomes a republic. [1]

November 2

• Popular presidential vote first recorded; Jackson beats J.Q. Adams. [1]

November 15

• Series of fires kills ten (Edinburgh Scotland). [1]

November 21

• First Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, South Carolina. [1]

December 1

• House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Harris Crawford and Henry Clay - Adams eventually declared president. [1]

December 9

• Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain. [1]

December 16

• Great North Holland Canal opens. [1]

December 25

• Barbara Krudener mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at age 60. [1]