Explore 482 historical events from 1820–1829.
Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until he was overthrown on 4 September 1870. From 28 July to 4 September 1870, she…
Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (died 1920)
Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen was an Austrian botanist known for his paleobotanical studies of flora from the Tertiary era. He was the son of physicist Andreas von Ettingsh…
Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (died 1897)
George Woodroffe Goyder was a surveyor in the Colony of South Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (died 1898)
Stephen Collins Foster, known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Foster wrote mo…
Stephen Foster, American songwriter and composer (died 1864)
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian Slavist and ethnographer best known for publishing nearly 600 East Slavic and Russian fairy and folk tales, one of the largest collec…
Alexander Afanasyev, Russian ethnographer and author (died 1871)
Jan Gotlib "Bogumił" Bloch was a Polish banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare. Born Jewish and a convert to Calvinism,…
Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist (died 1902)
Juhani Aataminpoika alias Kerpeikkari, was a Finnish serial killer. He killed 12 people in southern Finland between October and November of 1849. He has been characterized as the f…
Juhani Aataminpoika, Finnish serial killer (died 1854)
William Smith Clark was an American professor of chemistry, botany, and zoology; a colonel during the American Civil War; and a leader in agricultural education. Raised and schoole…
William S. Clark, American colonel and politician (died 1886)
Thomas Alexander Browne was a British-born Australian police magistrate and author. He published many of his works under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. He is best known for his 188…
Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (died 1915)
Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist, who wrote as A. Oksanen, was a Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic. He served as professor o…
August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (died 1889)
Carl Gegenbaur was a German anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution. As a pro…
Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist and academic (died 1903)
Martin Wiberg was a Swedish inventor. He enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850.
Martin Wiberg, Swedish philosopher and engineer (died 1905)
John Wisden was an English cricketer who played 187 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He is now best known for launchi…
John Wisden, English cricketer and businessman (died 1884)
Agathon Meurman was a Finnish politician and journalist. He was one of the key figures of the Fennoman movement and from 1863 the leader of the Finnish Party together with Yrjö Sak…
Agathon Meurman, Finnish politician and journalist (died 1909)
Kathinka Kraft was a Norwegian memoirist best known for her sole work Et og andet fra min Tid. Erindringer about her experiences growing up in Christiania and living in the country…
Kathinka Kraft, Norwegian memoirist (died 1895)
Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache JP was an English priest in the Church of England. He is best known for the unusual and increasingly eccentric names that he chose for …
Ralph Tollemache, English priest (died 1895)
Sebastian Kindelán y O'Regan, also called Sebastián de Kindelán y Oregón, was a colonel in the Spanish Army who served as governor of East Florida and of Santo Domingo during the S…
Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (born 1757)
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he…
Bernhard Riemann, German-Italian mathematician and academic (died 1866)
J. F. Oberlin was an Alsatian pastor and a philanthropist. He has been known as John Frederic(k) Oberlin in English, Jean-Frédéric Oberlin in French, and Johann Friedrich Oberlin i…
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Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin was a Russian historian, writer, poet and critic. He is best remembered for his fundamental History of the Russian State, a 12-volume national history…
Nikolay Karamzin, Russian historian and poet (born 1766)
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic in the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Best known for his ope…
Carl Maria von Weber, German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1786)
Joseph Ritter von Fraunhofer was a German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass, an achromatic telescope, and objective lenses. He developed diffraction gr…
Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787)
John Adams was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved in…
John Adams, American lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the United States (born 1735)
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was the primary …
Thomas Jefferson, American architect, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of the United States (born 1743)