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
- Catostconspirators.jpg
February 23: The Cato Street Conspiracy to assassinate British Prime Minister and his government is thwarted in London.
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February 6: The Capture of Valdivia is made in Chile.
- Chicago in 1820.jpg
- Print showing Native Americans engaged in fur trading on the banks of a river or lake at the settlement of Chicago.
- William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg
- Susan B Anthony c1855.png
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.
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- Three Quarter length portrait of Florence Nightingale
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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)