Explore 130 historical events from 1820–1829.
J. F. Oberlin was an Alsatian pastor and a philanthropist. He has been known as John Frederic(k) Oberlin in English, Jean-Frédéric Oberlin in French, and Johann Friedrich Oberlin i…
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Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history…
Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (born 1766)
Parramatta is a city and major commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney. It is located approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) west of the Sydney central business district on the ba…
In Parramatta, Australia, Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A (pictured), which was later recognised
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 (pictured) departed on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra d
The coronation of Charles X took place on 29 May 1825 in Reims, where he was crowned King of France and Navarre. The ceremony was held at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Reims in Re…
The Coronation of Charles X of France takes place in Reims Cathedral, the last ever coronation of a French monarch
Johann Jakob Balmer was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of hydrogen atom.
Johann Jakob Balmer, Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1898)
George Inness was an American landscape painter.
George Inness, American painter and educator (died 1894)
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin…
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic (died 1895)
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join …
General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square in B
Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon was a British-American antiquarian and photographer who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on…
Augustus Le Plongeon, English-American historian, photographer, and academic (died 1908)
Colonel George Bruce Malleson was a Bengal Army officer and historian.
George Bruce Malleson, English-Indian colonel and author (died 1898)
James Collinson was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. Collinson was known for the paintings,The Renunciation of St Elizabeth…
James Collinson, Victorian painter (died 1881)
Orélie-Antoine de Tounens was a French avoué and adventurer who proclaimed by two decrees on 17 and 20 November 1860 that Araucanía and Patagonia did not depend of any other states…
Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and explorer (died 1878)
Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public…
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the U
John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. In April 1862, he raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, fought at Shiloh, and then launched a costly raid …
John Hunt Morgan, American general (died 1864)
Johann Friedrich Pfaff was a German mathematician. He is best known for his work on differential equations and as Carl Friedrich Gauss's doctoral advisor.
Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (born 1765)
Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career…
Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (born 1750)
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, better known as Henri de Saint-Simon, was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a sub…
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher and theorist (born 1760)
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintin…
The National Gallery in London opens to the public
Alexander William Williamson FRS FRSE PCS MRIA was an English chemist. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis.
Alexander William Williamson, English chemist and academic (died 1904)
William Walker was an American journalist and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of manifest destiny, Walker organized unauthorized…
William Walker, American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (died 1860)
Jacob ben Moses Bachrach was a noted apologist of Rabbinic Judaism. He was descended from Rabbi Yair Chayim Bacharach, and in turn from the Maharal of Prague.
Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist and author (died 1896)
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Mentored during the Classical period, he incorporated more complex structure and emotion in his later works. Beethoven's mus…
World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria
Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin…
Wilhelm Hofmeister, German botanist (died 1877)