Explore 255 historical events from 1820–1829.
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electri…
Humphry Davy, English-Swiss chemist and academic (born 1778)
Philibert-Jean-Baptiste François Joseph, comte Curial was a general in the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (born 1774)
James Smithson was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining calamine, which woul…
James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (born 1765)
Auguste René Caillié was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordo…
René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; mi…
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Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to …
Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel …
Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
Charbel Makhlouf, O.L.M. was a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and …
Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint (died 1898)
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the …
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (died 1882)
Rudolf Koller was a Swiss painter. He is associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with the essentially romantic Düsseldorf school of painting. Koller's style is sim…
Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (died 1905)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Gräfe, often Anglicized to Graefe, was a Prussian pioneer of German ophthalmology. Graefe was born in Finkenheerd, Brandenburg, the son of Karl…
Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (died 1870)
Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera was a scholar Buddhist monk who lived in the 19th century in Sri Lanka. An educationist and revivalist of Sri Lankan Buddhism, he was reputed for his…
Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera, Buddhist monk and scholar, founder of Vidyalankara Pirivena (died 1885)
Ferdinand André Fouqué was a French geologist and petrologist.
Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (died 1904)
Nikolaus Nilles was a Roman Catholic writer and teacher.
Nikolaus Nilles, German Catholic writer and teacher (died 1907)
Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, 3rd Baronet was an Irish-born Australian colonial politician who was the 13th Premier of Victoria.
Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905)
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano was a cardinal of the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth century. He was Bishop of Ostia e Velletri and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals f…
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (died 1913)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His …
Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (born 1746)
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century. One of his best known w…
Mauro Giuliani, Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (born 1781)
Lars Ingier was a Norwegian military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner.
Lars Ingier, Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (born 1760)
Katharina Buchwieser was a German operatic soprano and actress. She was known as Cathinka, and her married surname was Lacsny von Folkusfálva. She appeared at theatres of Vienna, t…
Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (born 1789)
Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (born 1741)
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship
Lyncoya Jackson, also known as Lincoyer or Lincoya, was an Indigenous American from a family that was a part of the Upper Creek tribal-geographical grouping and more than likely af…
Lyncoya Jackson, a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson
Auguste René Caillié was a French explorer and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu. Caillié had been preceded at Timbuktu by a British officer, Major Gordo…
French explorer René Caillié reached Timbuktu in present-day Mali, and later received a 9,000-franc prize from the Socié