Explore 329 historical events from 1820–1829.
Jules Bernard Luys was a French neurologist known for significant contributions to nineteenth-century neuroanatomy and neuropsychiatry. He produced influential works on the structu…
Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (died 1897)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His …
Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (born 1746)
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century. One of his best known w…
Mauro Giuliani, Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer (born 1781)
Lars Ingier was a Norwegian military officer, road manager, land owner and mill owner.
Lars Ingier, Norwegian road manager, land owner, and mill owner (born 1760)
Katharina Buchwieser was a German operatic soprano and actress. She was known as Cathinka, and her married surname was Lacsny von Folkusfálva. She appeared at theatres of Vienna, t…
Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (born 1789)
Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (born 1741)
Konstantin von Benckendorff was a Russian general and diplomat of Baltic German descent.
Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and diplomat (born 1785)
Franz Joseph Gall or Franz Josef Gall was a German neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain.
Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroanatomist and physiologist (born 1758)
Lyncoya Jackson, also known as Lincoyer or Lincoya, was an Indigenous American from a family that was a part of the Upper Creek tribal-geographical grouping and more than likely af…
Lyncoya Jackson, a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg, was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying und…
Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist and psychologist (born 1743)
Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Frisian astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Dutch Republic. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning …
Eise Eisinga, Dutch astronomer and academic, built the Eisinga Planetarium (born 1744)
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…
French explorer René Caillié reached Timbuktu in present-day Mali, and later received a 9,000-franc prize from the Socié
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Repres…
The United States Congress passed the largest tariff in the nation's history, which resulted in severe economic hardship
William I was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840.
Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord.
José Domingo de la Merced de La Mar y Cortázar was a Peruvian military leader and politician who served as the third President of Peru.
José de La Mar becomes President of Peru.
Octave Crémazie was a French Canadian poet and bookseller born in Quebec City. Recognized both during and after his lifetime for his patriotic verse and his significant role in the…
Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet and bookseller (died 1879)
William Nelson Edward Hall was the first Black person, first Nova Scotian, and the third Canadian to receive the Victoria Cross due to his actions in the 1857 Siege of Lucknow, ami…
William Hall, Canadian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1904)
Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional metho…
Jules Breton, French painter (died 1906)
John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and army officer who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and, …
John Hanning Speke, English soldier and explorer (died 1864)
Petrus Josephus Hubertus "Pierre" Cuypers was a Dutch architect. His name is most frequently associated with the Amsterdam Central Station (1881–1889) and the Rijksmuseum (1876–188…
Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (died 1921)
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its found…
Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
Hermann Raster was an American editor, abolitionist, writer, and anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely c…
Hermann Raster, German-American journalist and politician (died 1891)
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour was a French statesman.
Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French academic and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1896)
William Peter Sprague was a businessman, banker, politician, and a two-term U.S. Representative from Ohio, serving from 1871 to 1875.
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