Explore 329 historical events from 1820–1829.
Carlo Eduardo Acton was an Italian composer and concert pianist. He is particularly remembered for his opera Una cena in convitto and for his sacred music compositions of which his…
Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (died 1909)
Thomas Young was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. H…
Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (born 1773)
Sikander Jah, Asaf Jah III Mir Akbar Ali Khan Siddiqi, was the 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad, India from 1803 to 1829. He was born in Chowmahalla Palace in the Khilwath, the second son of…
Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam (born 1768)
Philibert-Jean-Baptiste François Joseph, comte Curial was a general in the French Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (born 1774)
John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice o…
John Jay, American politician and diplomat, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (born 1745)
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electri…
Humphry Davy, English-Swiss chemist and academic (born 1778)
James Smithson was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining calamine, which woul…
James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (born 1765)
Charles Henri Félicité Sapinaud de la Rairie was a French soldier and Vendéen general during the war in the Vendée.
Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (born 1760)
The Preliminary Peace Convention was a bilateral treaty signed on 27 August 1828 between the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, after British mediati…
Brazil and Argentina recognize the sovereignty of Uruguay in the Treaty of Montevideo.
Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to …
Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (died 1915)
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…
René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing
John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825; mi…
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Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel …
Henry Dunant, Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
Charbel Makhlouf, O.L.M. was a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest. During his life, he obtained a wide reputation for holiness, and for his ability to unite Christians, Muslims and …
Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and saint (died 1898)
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the …
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (died 1882)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Gräfe, often Anglicized to Graefe, was a Prussian pioneer of German ophthalmology. Graefe was born in Finkenheerd, Brandenburg, the son of Karl…
Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (died 1870)
Ferdinand André Fouqué was a French geologist and petrologist.
Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and academic (died 1904)
Nikolaus Nilles was a Roman Catholic writer and teacher.
Nikolaus Nilles, German Catholic writer and teacher (died 1907)
Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, 3rd Baronet was an Irish-born Australian colonial politician who was the 13th Premier of Victoria.
Bryan O'Loghlen, Irish-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Victoria (died 1905)
Rudolf Koller was a Swiss painter. He is associated with a realist and classicist style, and also with the essentially romantic Düsseldorf school of painting. Koller's style is sim…
Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (died 1905)
Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera was a scholar Buddhist monk who lived in the 19th century in Sri Lanka. An educationist and revivalist of Sri Lankan Buddhism, he was reputed for his…
Ratmalane Sri Dharmaloka Thera, Buddhist monk and scholar, founder of Vidyalankara Pirivena (died 1885)
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano was a cardinal of the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth century. He was Bishop of Ostia e Velletri and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals f…
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (died 1913)
Manuel Pavia y Rodriguez de Alburquerque was a Spanish general, who was an important part of Spanish political life during the second half of the 19th century. He participated in t…
Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (died 1895)
Louise of the Netherlands, also called Lovisa, was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 8 July 1859 until her death in 1871 as the wife of King Charles XV & IV.
Louise of the Netherlands (died 1871)