Explore 385 historical events from 1820–1829.
Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt was a pianist, composer, conductor and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical th…
Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, conductor and pianist (died 1907)
Moritz Benedikt Cantor was a German historian of mathematics.
Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian (died 1920)
Carlo Eduardo Acton was an Italian composer and concert pianist. He is particularly remembered for his opera Una cena in convitto and for his sacred music compositions of which his…
Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (died 1909)
Lester Allan Pelton was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the American Old West as well as world-wide. In …
Lester Allan Pelton, American inventor (died 1908)
Friedrich August Kekulé, later Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, was a German organic chemist. From the 1850s until his death, Kekulé was one of the most prominent chemists i…
August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (died 1896)
Thomas Hill was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the Californian landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mou…
Thomas Hill, American painter (died 1908)
Anselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school.
Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (died 1880)
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
Thomas Young was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. H…
Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (born 1773)
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice o…
John Jay, American politician and diplomat, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (born 1745)
Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III Mir Akbar Ali Khan Siddiqi, was the 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad, India from 1803 to 1829. He was born in Chowmahalla Palace in the Khilwath, the second son of…
Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam (born 1768)
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)
Charles Henri Félicité Sapinaud de la Rairie was a French soldier and Vendéen general during the war in the Vendée.
Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (born 1760)
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)
The Preliminary Peace Convention was a bilateral treaty signed on 27 August 1828 between the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, after British mediati…
Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo.
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)
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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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)