He returned to politics to oppose the pro-slavery Kansas – Nebraska Act ( 1854 ); this law repealed the slavery-restricting Missouri Compromise ( 1820 ).

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

Causes include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican – American War and the resulting Compromise of 1850.

* 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist ( d. 1910 )

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist ( d. 1893 )

* 1890 – David Wilber, American politician ( b. 1820 )

* 1751 – Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange ( d. 1820 )

* 1820 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician ( d. 1892 )

* 1820 – Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

* 1771 – Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1820 )

* 1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of Baseball ( d. 1892 )

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Four more children followed: Charlotte, ( 1816 – 1855 ), Patrick Branwell ( 1817 – 1848 ), Emily, ( 1818 – 1848 ) and Anne ( 1820 – 1849 ).

* 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist ( b. 1820 )

* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

* 1887 – Multatuli, Dutch writer ( b. 1820 )

Eduard Douwes Dekker ( 2 March 1820 – 19 February 1887 ), better known by his pen name Multatuli ( from Latin multa tuli, " I have carried much "), was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar ( 1860 ), which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies ( today's Indonesia ).

* February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer ( b. 1820 )

of Eduard Douwes Dekker, 1820 – 1887 ), whose Max Havelaar ( 1860 ) is a scathing indictment of colonial mismanagement and one of the few nineteenth-century prose works still widely considered readable today.

The disease is named after Eduard Heinrich Henoch ( 1820 – 1910 ), a German pediatrician, and his teacher Johann Lukas Schönlein ( 1793 – 1864 ), who described it in the 1860s.

* Eduard Herbst ( 1820 – 1892 ), Austrian jurist and statesman

Several other alkaloids were discovered around that time, including xanthine ( 1817 ), atropine ( 1819 ), caffeine ( 1820 ), coniine ( 1827 ), nicotine ( 1828 ), colchicine ( 1833 ), sparteine ( 1851 ), and cocaine ( 1860 ).

Wooden Dandy horse | draisine ( around 1820 ), the first two-wheeler and as such the archetype of the bicycle

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

# Maria-Anna Elisa Bonaparte ( 1777 – 1820 ), Grand-Duchess of Tuscany married Félix Bacciochi Levoy

#* Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte ( 1820 – 1904 ), married Prince Anatole Demidoff di San Donato: no posterity

Hegel, in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right ( 1820 ), gave it a philosophical justification that concurred with evolving contemporary political theory and the Protestant Christian view of natural law.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

ET, in turn, can now be seen ( in light of modern results ) as close to the average mean solar time between 1750 and 1890 ( centered on 1820 ), because that was the period during which the observations on which Newcomb's tables were based were performed.

He brought out, in the Annals of Oriental Literature ( London, 1820 ), an essay entitled, " Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages ", in which he extended to all parts of the grammar what he had done in his first book for the verb alone.

* Gia Long ( 1762 – 1820 ), Vietnamese Emperor

The Revolutionary War-era " American Gothic " story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in Washington Irving's story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( published in 1820 ), marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic story-telling.

He was Governor of South Carolina ( 1810 – 1812 ), U. S. Representative ( 1815 – 1819 ), and the minister to Russia ( 1820 – 1830 ).

George Hearst ( 1820 – 1891 ), American publisher and U. S. senator, entered the newspaper business in 1880, acquiring the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

According to William Scoresby ( 1820: p. 154 ), referring to the mistaken belief that the Dutch had discovered the island in 1611, Hull whalers discovered the island " about the same time " and named it " Trinity Island ".

In 1820, the Mauritshuis was bought by the Dutch state for the purpose of housing the Royal Cabinet of Paintings.

* Princess Consort Wilhelmina of Orange ( 1750 – 1820 ) from the Dutch Republic

Wynantskill, in the northeastern corner of the town was first settled around the end of the 18th century with a Dutch Reformed Church established around 1794, and a post office was established in 1820.

Around 1820, the Japanese inventor Kunitomo Ikkansai developed various manufacturing methods for guns, and also created an air gun based on the study of Western knowledge (" rangaku ") acquired from the Dutch in Dejima.

The White-winged Chough was first described by French naturalist Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot in 1817 as Coracia melanorhamphos, other names given include Pyrrhocorax leucopterus by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1820, and Corcorax australis by French naturalist René-Primevère Lesson in 1830. before the current name was settled by Gregory Mathews in 1912.

The Common Firecrest was first formally described by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1820 as Sylvia ignicapilla ; the relatively late identification of this common European bird arose from a perception that it was just a variety of the Goldcrest.

Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy ( Leiden, Netherlands, 21 February 1820 – Alexandria, Egypt, 29 April May 1883 ) was a Dutch scholar of French ( Huguenot ) origin, who was born in Leiden.

( from The Shipwreck, Canto I ) were used as a motto for Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597 ( 1820 ) by the Dutch poet Hendrik Tollens ( 1780 – 1856 ).

He joined the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1820 and served in the Dutch East Indies between 1823 and 1825.

* Cookery that emerged from several waves of colonialisation and immigration introduced during the colonial period by people of Dutch, German, French and Indonesian descent ( since 1652 ) Afrikaner, British descent ( since 1805 and 1820 Settlers ) and their slaves or servants-this includes the cuisine of the so-called Cape Malay people, which has many characteristics of Indonesia and cooking styles from neighbouring colonial cultures such as Portuguese Mozambique.

During the 19th century, the river formed the border of the Cape Colony and was hotly contested during the Xhosa Wars of 1779 to 1878 between the Xhosa nation on the one side and the Dutch farmers and the 1820 Settlers from England on the other, and in 1835, the Fingo tribe was permitted to settle on the river's banks.

Prince William Frederick Henry of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau ( Dutch: Willem Frederik Hendrik, Prins der Nederlanden, Prins van Luxemburg, Prins van Oranje-Nassau ) ( 13 June 1820 – 14 January 1879 ) was the third son of King William II of the Netherlands and his wife, Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia.

In 1820, this mansion was rented and then sold to the Dutch Colonial Government in 1821.

In 1820, this mansion was rented and then sold to the Dutch Colonial Government in 1821.