1820
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1790s 1800s 1810s – 1820s – 1830s 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1817 1818 1819 – 1820 – 1821 1822 1823 |
1820 Media
February 23: The Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate British Prime Minister and his government is thwarted in London.
February 6: The Capture of Valdivia is made in Chile.
- Print showing Native Americans engaged in fur trading on the banks of a river or lake at the settlement of Chicago.
Public relations portrait of Susan B. Anthony as used in the History of Woman Suffrage by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Volume I, published in 1881.
- Three Quarter length portrait of Florence Nightingale
Engels in 1877 in Brighton
King George III
Qing Dynasty Anonymous "The Emperor Renzong Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty"
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1820 (MDCCCXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Thursday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- Venus de Milo is discovered.
- Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
Births
- March 22 – John Brown, English cricketer (died 1893)
- May 12 – Florence Nightingale, Italian-born English nurse (died 1910)
- date unknown
- Anne Bronte, English novelist (died 1849)
- King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1873)
- Joseph Whitaker, English publisher (died 1896)
Deaths
- George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
- Daniel Boone (b. 1734)