Explore 482 historical events from 1820–1829.
Per Pålsson, also called Kitte-Pelle, was a Swedish murderer convicted for the murder of Hanna Pålsdotter. Per Pålsson was in the end pardoned and instead of having to face the dea…
Per Pålsson, Swedish murderer (died 1914)
Fridolin Anderwert was a Swiss politician. After attending school in Tägerwilen, Frauenfeld, and Konstanz, he initially studied history and philosophy at the University of Leipzig.…
Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1880)
Charles Thomas Floquet was a French lawyer and statesman.
Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1896)
Woldemar Bargiel was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period.
Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (died 1897)
Samuel Jackson Randall was an American politician from Pennsylvania who represented the Queen Village, Society Hill, and Northern Liberties neighborhoods of Philadelphia from 1863 …
Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives…
Aureliano Maestre de San Juan was a Spanish scientist, histologist, physician and anatomist. He is credited as being one of the first scientists to recognize the disorder known as …
Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist (died 1890)
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)
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
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)
Konstantin von Benckendorff was a Russian general and diplomat of Baltic German descent.
Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (born 1785)
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg, was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying und…
Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (born 1743)
Franz Joseph Gall or Franz Josef Gall was a German neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain.
Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (born 1758)
Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Frisian astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning …
Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (born 1744)
Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling, was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Swede…
Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (born 1783)
Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus was an Aromanian physician and noble. Born in Gramos, he migrated to Siatista and then to Vienna to complete his studies in medicine. He gained great popula…
Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (born 1737)
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
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
William I was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840.
Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord.
José Domingo de la Merced de La Mar y Cortázar was a Peruvian military leader and politician who served as the third President of Peru.
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
The Great Fire of Turku was a conflagration in the city of Turku in 1827. It is still the largest urban fire in the history of Finland and the Nordic countries. The city had faced …
The Great Fire of Turku almost completely destroys Finland's former capital city.
The Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828 was the last major military conflict between the Russian Empire and Qajar Iran, which was fought over territorial disputes in the South Caucasus …
Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of…