1820

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1817 1818 1819 – 1820 – 1821 1822 1823

Events

• Venus de Milo discovered.
• Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.

Deaths

• George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)

Books

• The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving