Explore 385 historical events from 1820–1829.
Lorenzo Sawyer was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as the ninth Chief Justice of California from 1868 to 1870. …
Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (died 1891)
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Chauveau was the first premier of Quebec, following the establishment of Canada in 1867. Appointed to the offic…
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (died 1890)
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses…
Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician (died 1910)
Thomas Worthington Whittredge was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson Ri…
Worthington Whittredge, American painter (died 1910)
John Bartlett was an American writer and publisher and the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which he revised continuously and published in several editions. Since Bartlett…
John Bartlett, American author and publisher (died 1905)
Athanase Josué Coquerel was a French Protestant theologian.
Athanase Josué Coquerel, Dutch-French preacher and theologian (died 1875)
James Hutchison Stirling was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and …
James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1909)
George Law Curry was a predominant American political figure and newspaper publisher in the region that eventually became the state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he publishe…
George Law Curry, American publisher and politician, 5th governor of the Oregon Territory (died 1878)
Juan Nepomuceno Laureano Méndez Sánchez was a Mexican general, a Liberal politician and confidant of Porfirio Díaz, and interim president of the Republic for a few months during th…
Juan N. Méndez, Mexican general and interim president, 1876-1877 (died 1894)
William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics,…
William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1872)
John Tyndall (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was an Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the rea…
John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (died 1893)
Sir George Grove was an English engineer and writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
George Grove, English musicologist and historian (died 1900)
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore was a New Brunswick politician, jurist, and a member of a prominent United Empire Loyalist family.
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of New Brunswick (died 1892)
Lucretia Peabody Hale was an American writer and editor, best known for her humorous The Peterkin Papers stories.
Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (died 1900)
George Hearst was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty. After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations…
George Hearst, American businessman and politician (died 1891)
Sir Oliver Mowat was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant go…
Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1903)
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857.
Émile Augier, French playwright (died 1889)
Earl Van Dorn was an American Major General who started his military career as a United States Army officer and became famous for successfully leading two defenses of a Native Amer…
Earl Van Dorn, Confederate general (died 1863)
John Fulton Reynolds was a career United States Army officer and a general in the American Civil War. One of the Union Army's most respected senior commanders, he played a key role…
John F. Reynolds, American general (died 1863)
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (born 1743)
Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano, usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military …
Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian general, economist, and politician (born 1770)
Andrew Ellicott was an American land surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and co…
Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (born 1754)
The Jiaqing Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, personal name Yongyan, was the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over…
Jiaqing Emperor of China (born 1760)
Timothy Brown was an English banker, merchant and radical, known for his association with other radicals of the time, such as John Horne Tooke, Robert Waithman, William Frend, Will…
Timothy Brown, English banker and merchant (born 1743/4)