Explore 255 historical events from 1820–1829.
Odysseas Androutsos was a Greek armatolos in eastern continental Greece and a prominent figure of the Greek War of Independence.
Odysseas Androutsos, Greek soldier (born 1788)
Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant was a French-American artist, professor, and military engineer. In 1791, L'Enfant designed the baroque-styled plan for the development of Washington…
Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D
Thomas Peabody Grosvenor was a United States representative from New York.
Thomas P. Grosvenor, American soldier and politician (born 1744)
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
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is a charity operating in England and Wales which promotes animal Activism. The RSPCA is funded primarily by volu…
A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prev
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence fought by Greek revolutionaries against the …
Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, …
Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua.
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)
Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a U.S. representative from New York…
Levi P
Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer …
Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (died 1893)
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and also was a Confederate general during the American Civil War.
Cadmus M
Ambrose Everts Burnside was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the American Civil War and a three-time governor of Rhode Island, as well a…
Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (died 1881)
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.
Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1910)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was a Scottish mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (died 1907)
Paul Pierre Broca was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Bro…
Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (died 1880)
Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and alo…
Eugène Boudin, French painter (died 1898)
Alexandre Dumas fils was a French author and playwright, best known for the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias, published in 1848, which was adapted into Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 ope…
Alexandre Dumas, fils, French novelist and playwright (died 1895)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among…
Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (born 1788)
Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.
Joseph Joubert, French author (born 1754)
Capel Lofft was a British lawyer, writer and amateur astronomer.
Capel Lofft, English lawyer (born 1751)