Explore 255 historical events from 1820–1829.
Octave Crémazie was a French Canadian poet and bookseller born in Quebec City. Recognized both during and after his lifetime for his patriotic verse and his significant role in the…
Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet and bookseller (died 1879)
William Nelson Edward Hall was the first Black person, first Nova Scotian, and the third Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross due to his actions in the 1857 Siege of Lucknow, ami…
William Hall, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1904)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional metho…
Jules Breton, French painter (died 1906)
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its found…
Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and army officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and, …
John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (died 1864)
Hermann Raster was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely c…
Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (died 1891)
Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–188…
Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (died 1921)
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was a French statesman.
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French academic and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1896)
William Peter Sprague was a businessman, banker, politician, and a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio, serving from 1871 to 1875.
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Samuel Franklin Miller was a United States representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War.
Samuel F
Kusumoto Ine was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.
Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (died 1903)
Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories. She wrote the popular book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zürich, as a child she spent…
Johanna Spyri, Swiss author, best known for Heidi (died 1901)
Alberto Henschel was a German-born Brazilian photographer born in Berlin. Considered the hardest-working photographer and businessman in 19th-century Brazil, with offices in Pernam…
Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (died 1882)
William Wallace Thayer, was an American Democratic politician active in U.S. states of Idaho and Oregon. Most notably, he served as the sixth governor of Oregon from 1878 to 1882 a…
W. W. Thayer American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (died 1899)
Mangal Pandey was an Indian soldier who played a key role in the events that led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which resulted in the dissolution of the East India Company and th…
Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (died 1857)
Georgios Karaiskakis, born Georgios Karaiskos, was a Greek military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence.
Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek general (born 1780)
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony was a member of the House of Wettin who reigned as the last Elector of Saxony from 1763 to 1806 and as the first King of Saxony from 1806 to 1827. He…
Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (born 1750)
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn was a German Protestant theologian of the Enlightenment and an early orientalist. He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (born 1754)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newto…
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer, reviver of wave theory of light, inventor of catadioptric…
Centaurus A is a galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop from his home in Parramatta, in New South Wales, Australia.…
The galaxy Centaurus A or NGC 5128 is discovered by James Dunlop
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class. The vessel, constructed at a cost of £7,803, was launched on 11 May 1…
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage
The Auspicious Incident or Auspicious Event was the forced disbandment of the centuries-old janissary corps by Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II on 15 June 1826. Most of the 135,000 janissa…
In the Auspicious Incident, the Janissary mutiny against Sultan Mahmud II is defeated and the Janissary corps is disband
The Maniots or Maniates is the traditional name for the native Greek inhabitants of the Mani Peninsula in the southern Peloponnese region of Greece. They have historically been kno…
Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
Sir James Porter Corry, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1874 to 1891 and an Irish Unionist Alliance MP until his dea…
Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (died 1891)