Explore 385 historical events from 1820–1829.
Goffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer who was a notable figure in the Risorgimento. He is famously the lyricist of "Il Canto degli Italiani"—the national anthem o…
Goffredo Mameli, Italian poet and songwriter (died 1849)
Manuel Deodoro da Fonseca was a Brazilian politician and military officer who served as the head of provisional government and the first president of Brazil. He was born in Alagoas…
Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (died 1892)
Lovro Toman was a Slovene Romantic nationalist revolutionary activist during the Revolution of 1848, known as the person who in Ljubljana, at the Wolf Street 8, raised the Slovene …
Lovro Toman, Slovenian lawyer and politician (died 1870)
Jean Albert Gaudry was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the Catholic Collège Stanislas de Paris. He was a notable prop…
Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1908)
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…
George Canning was a British statesman and Tory politician. He became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on 12 April 1827, but his premiership was cut short by his death 119 days…
George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)
William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of th…
William Blake, English poet and painter (born 1757)
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
Major Alexander Gordon Laing was a Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu, arriving there via the north-to-south route in August 1826. He was killed five weeks …
Major Gordon Laing becomes the first European to enter Timbuktu.
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)
Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She wrote the novel, John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.
Dinah Craik, English author and poet (died 1887)
Charles XV and IV was King of Sweden and King of Norway, there often referred to as Charles IV, from 8 July 1859 until his death in 1872. Charles was the third Swedish monarch from…
Charles XV of Sweden (died 1872)
Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known…
Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (died 1900)
Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until he was overthrown on 4 September 1870. From 28 July to 4 September 1870, she…
Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (died 1920)
Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen was an Austrian botanist known for his paleobotanical studies of flora from the Tertiary era. He was the son of physicist Andreas von Ettingsh…
Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (died 1897)
George Woodroffe Goyder was a surveyor in the Colony of South Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (died 1898)
Stephen Collins Foster, known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Foster wrote mo…
Stephen Foster, American songwriter and composer (died 1864)
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collec…
Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and author (died 1871)