Explore 329 historical events from 1820–1829.
Lorenzo Sawyer was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as the ninth Chief Justice of California from 1868 to 1870. …
Lorenzo Sawyer, American lawyer and judge (died 1891)
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Chauveau was the first premier of Quebec, following the establishment of Canada in 1867. Appointed to the offic…
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (died 1890)
Thomas Worthington Whittredge was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson Ri…
Worthington Whittredge, American painter (died 1910)
John Bartlett was an American writer and publisher and the editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which he revised continuously and published in several editions. Since Bartlett…
John Bartlett, American author and publisher (died 1905)
Athanase Josué Coquerel was a French Protestant theologian.
Athanase Josué Coquerel, Dutch-French preacher and theologian (died 1875)
James Hutchison Stirling was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and …
James Hutchison Stirling, Scottish physician and philosopher (died 1909)
George Law Curry was a predominant American political figure and newspaper publisher in the region that eventually became the state of Oregon. A native of Pennsylvania, he publishe…
George Law Curry, American publisher and politician, 5th governor of the Oregon Territory (died 1878)
Juan Nepomuceno Laureano Méndez Sánchez was a Mexican general, a Liberal politician and confidant of Porfirio Díaz, and interim president of the Republic for a few months during th…
Juan N. Méndez, Mexican general and interim president, 1876-1877 (died 1894)
William John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish mathematician and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics,…
William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1872)
Sir Oliver Mowat was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant go…
Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (died 1903)
John Tyndall (; 2 August 1820 – 4 December 1893) was an Irish physicist. His scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he made discoveries in the rea…
John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (died 1893)
Sir George Grove was an English engineer and writer on music, known as the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
George Grove, English musicologist and historian (died 1900)
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore was a New Brunswick politician, jurist, and a member of a prominent United Empire Loyalist family.
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of New Brunswick (died 1892)
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences.
Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (born 1743)
Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano, usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military …
Manuel Belgrano, Argentinian general, economist, and politician (born 1770)
Andrew Ellicott was an American land surveyor who helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and co…
Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (born 1754)
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), the ship that would take Charles Darwin on his voyage, was launched