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| align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''Years:'''</small><br> [[1817]] [[1818]] [[1819]] - [[1820]] - [[1821]] [[1822]] [[1823]]
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| align="center" colspan=2 | <small>'''[[Decades]]:'''</small> <br> [[1790s]] [[1800s]] [[1810s]] - '''[[1820s]]''' - [[1830s]] [[1840s]] [[1850s]]
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| align="center" | <small>'''[[Centuries]]:'''</small> <br> [[18th century]] - '''[[19th century]]''' - [[20th century]] <hr>
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'''1820''' was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] (see link for calendar).
==Events==
* [[January 1]] - Constitutionalist military insurrection at [[Cádiz]] leads to summoning of [[Spain|Spanish]] parliament ([[March 7]]) and restoration of [[1812]] Constitution ([[March 8]]) by king [[Ferdinand VII of Spain|Ferdinand VII]]. (See [[Mid-nineteenth century Spain]].)
* [[January 28]] - [[Imperial Russia|Russia]]n expedition lead by [[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]] and [[Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev]] approaches the [[Antarctica|Antarctic coast]]. (See [[History of Antarctica]].)
* [[January 29]] - [[George IV of the United Kingdom]] ascends the Throne, ending the period known as the [[English Regency]].
* [[January 30]] - [[Edward Bransfield]] lands on the [[Antarctica|Antarctic mainland]]. (See [[History of Antarctica]].)
* [[February 6]] - 86 free [[African American]] colonists sail from [[New York City]] to [[Freetown, Sierra Leone]].
* [[February 23]] - The [[Cato Street conspiracy]] is exposed. The principals are executed on [[May 1]]
* [[March 3]] & [[March 6|6]] - [[Slavery]] in the [[United States]]: The [[Missouri Compromise]] becomes law.
* [[March 15]] - [[Maine]] is admitted as the 23rd [[U.S. state]].
* [[April]] - [[Radical War]] in [[Scotland]]
* [[May 1]] - Last hanging drawing and quartering in [[United Kingdom|Britain]] – [[Cato Street Conspiracy|Cato Street conspirators]] for treason (only hanged and beheaded) (See [[Capital punishment in the United Kingdom]].)
* [[Spring (season)|Spring]] - [[Joseph Smith, Jr.]] at age 14 claims to be visited in a vision by [[God]] and [[Jesus]] (Tradition holds that this occurred on [[April 6]])
* [[July]] - [[Constitutionalist]] revolution in the [[Kingdom of the Two Sicilies]]
* [[August 24]] - [[Constitutionalist]] insurrection at [[Oporto]], [[Portugal]]; revolution in [[Lisbon]], [[September 15]] (See [[History_of_Portugal#Crises_of_the_Nineteenth_Century|Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century]].)
* [[October 9]] - [[Guayaquil]] declare independence from [[Spain]]. (See also [[History of Ecuador]]).
* [[October 25]]-[[November 20]] - [[Congress of Troppau]] ([[Opava]]) between rulers of [[Russia]], [[Austria]] and [[Prussia]]
*[[November]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1820|U.S. presidential election]]: [[James Monroe]] is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
==Unknown date==
*The 6th Edition of [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] begins appearing.
*Republic of [[Buenos Aires]] ([[Argentina]]) establishes a [[penal colony]] in [[Falkland Islands]].
*[[Venus de Milo]] found on the island of [[Melos]].
*[[Hans Christian Ørsted]] discovers the relationship between [[electricity]] and [[magnetism]].
==Births==
* [[January 17]] - [[Anne Brontë]], English author (d. [[1849]])
* [[February 8]] - [[William Tecumseh Sherman]], American Civil War general (d. [[1891]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Susan B. Anthony]], American suffragist (d. [[1906]])
* [[February 17]] - [[Henri Vieuxtemps]], Belgian composer (d. [[1881]])
* [[February 28]] - [[John Tenniel]], English illustrator (d. [[1914]])
* [[March 3]] - [[Henry D. Cogswell]], American philanthropist and [[temperance movement]] pioneer (d. ?).
* [[March 14]] - [[Victor Emmanuel II of Italy]] (d. [[1878]])
* [[May 12]] - [[Florence Nightingale]], English nurse (d. [[1910]])
* [[May 27]] - [[Mathilde Bonaparte]], Italian princess (d. [[1904]])
*[[July 23]] - [[Julia Gardiner Tyler]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (d. [[1889]])
* [[September 17]] - [[Émile Augier]], French dramatist (d. [[1889]])
* [[September 27]] - [[Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel]], German classical scholar (d. [[1878]])
* [[September 29]] - [[Comte de Chambord]], claimant to the French throne (d. [[1883]])
* [[October 6]] - [[Jenny Lind]], Swedish soprano (d. [[1887]])
* [[November 23]] - [[Isaac Todhunter]], English mathematician (d. [[1884]])
* [[November 28]] - [[Friedrich Engels]], German social philosopher (d. [[1895]])
* [[Harriet Tubman]], American abolitionist activist (d. [[1913]])
==Deaths==
* [[January 29]] - King [[George III of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1738]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry]] (stabbed) (b. [[1778]])
* [[March 22]] - [[Stephen Decatur]], American sailor (b. [[1779]])
* [[June 19]] - Sir [[Joseph Banks]], British naturalist and botanist (b. [[1743]])
* [[September 3]] - [[Benjamin Latrobe]], English architect (b. [[1764]])
*[[October 15]] - [[Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg]], Austrian field marshal (b. [[1771]])
*[[December 25]] - [[Joseph Fouché]], French statesman (b. [[1763]])
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