By 1820, the company was issuing coinage, each coin representing the value of one beaver pelt.

He cut the dies for the coinage from 1817: The Crowns were issued in 1818, 1819 and 1820.

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

In September of 1820, Ampère ’ s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current.

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

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

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.

This article is about the specific period from 1750 to 1820.

The symbol was used by André-Marie Ampère, after whom the unit of electric current is named, in formulating the eponymous Ampère's force law which he discovered in 1820.

The land which is now Columbus was bought by General John Tipton and Luke Bonesteel in 1820.

* 1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.

A late example of traditional Gothic is Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1820 ) by Charles Maturin which combines themes of Anti-Catholicism with an outcast Byronic hero ( Varma 1986 ).

Ivanhoe is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1820, and set in 12th-century England.

Pierce that read, “ except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative .” Identical legislation was soon introduced in the house.

Soon after the discovery in 1820 by H. C. Ørsted that a magnetic needle is acted on by a voltaic current, André-Marie Ampère that same year was able to devise through experimentation the formula for the angular dependence of the force between two current elements .< ref >

* 1820 –, the ship that will take Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage, is launched.

* 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe.

* 1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex ( a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts ) 2, 000 miles from the western coast of South America ( Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story ).

* 1820 – Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica ( the Palmer Peninsula is later named after him ).

* List of oldest companies, as Nordea is the oldest bank in Sweden, with roots from 1820.

George II ( 1727 – 1760 ) occasionally presided at Cabinet meetings but his grandson, George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), is known to have attended only two during his 60 year reign.

As noted previously, George III ( 1760 – 1820 ) is known to have attended only two Cabinet meetings.

Some feel that the popular use of the term " Regency dance " is not technically correct, as the actual English Regency ( the future George IV ruling on behalf of mad King George III ) lasted only from 1811 until 1820.

In 1820, Wilhelm von Humboldt connected the study of language to the national romanticist program by proposing the view that language is the very fabric of thought.

* The Family Shakspeare, in which nothing is added to the original text ; but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family by Thomas Bowdler in 10 volumes, Facsimile reprint of 2nd edition, revised, in 1820, Eureka Press, 2009.

The term is also used specifically to denote re-creation of the dances of the English Regency ( 1795 – 1820 ), American Civil War ( 1860s ), Victorian, and Ragtime eras.

So it is very likely they were visiting Zambian territory between 1720 and 1820.

Between 1820 and 1870, HBC issued its own paper money.

Threepences were issued in 1762 – 3, 1765 – 6, 1770, 1772, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1792, 1795, 1800, 1817, 1818, and 1820.

Again engraved by Rowlandson himself in 1812, and issued under the title of the Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, they had attained a fifth edition by 1813, and were followed in 1820 by Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation, and in 1821 by the Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife.

When Parliament was dissolved in 1820 he issued an address declining to stand at the next election.

Before leaving Troppau, however, the three autocratic powers, Russia, Austria and Prussia, had issued, on the December 8, 1820, a circular letter, in which they reiterated the principles of the Protocol, i. e. the right and duty of the powers responsible for the peace of Europe to intervene to suppress any revolutionary movement by which they might conceive that peace to be endangered ( Hertslet, No. 105 ).

( 1818 – 1820 ); his letters were edited separately by Rives ( 1823 ); a selection of his works, ( OEuvres choisies, was issued, with a biographical notice, by E Falconnet in 2 vols.

In 1820 he issued his Essai géologique sur l ' Ecosse, in which the eruptive rocks in particular were carefully described.

The first patent of land was issued to Ezekiel Robinson, a land surveyor, on August 7, 1820.

The first part of The New Cyclopædia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences … Biography, Geography, and History, & c., was issued on 2 January 1802, and the work was completed in forty-five volumes, including six volumes of plates, in August 1820.

They executed their survey of the Detroit River, Lake St. Clair, and the St. Clair River in 1819 and 1820 and issued their final conclusions on June 18, 1822.

The grant, issued on August 3, 1820, embraced the sites of the cities of San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, Berkeley, and Albany.

In April 1820, the Brontës moved into the a five-roomed Haworth Parsonage which became their home for the rest of their lives.

Beginning in 1820, Aarau has been a refuge for political refugees.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

In 1820, the colony of Cape Breton Island was merged for the second time with Nova Scotia.

In 1820, the Colony of Cape Breton Island was merged back into the Colony of Nova Scotia for the second time by the British government.

The style of Miyake Taiko has developed as a music for Gozu Tenno Sai — a traditional festival held on July in Miyake-jima since 1820.

Integrating + 1. 7 ms / d / cy and centering the resulting parabola on the year 1820 yields ( to a first approximation ) 31 ×(( Year − 1820 )/ 100 )< sup > 2 </ sup > seconds for ΔT.

The second chapter in Ecuador's struggle for emancipation from Spanish colonial rule began in Guayaquil, where independence was proclaimed in October 1820 by a local patriotic junta under the leadership of the poet José Joaquín de Olmedo.

While preparing for an evening lecture on 21 April 1820, Hans Christian Ørsted made a surprising observation.

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.

The further charge that Bopp, in his Comparative Grammar, gave undue prominence to Sanskrit stands disproved by his own words ; for, as early as the year 1820, he gave it as his opinion that frequently the cognate languages serve to elucidate grammatical forms lost in Sanskrit ( Annals of Or.

A most unusual use of granite was in the construction of the rails for the Haytor Granite Tramway, Devon, England, in 1820.

In 1820, an expedition intended for the colonies ( which, at the time, were on the verge of being lost themselves, to rebels and the Monroe Doctrine ) revolted in Cadiz.

Once again in the revolution of 1820, it was the independent towns that led the drive for constitutional change in Spain.

Yet in 1820, weakened by illness and with a decreasing support for his authoritarian regime, he killed himself with a silver bullet rather than face a coup d ' état.

Chayei Adam and Chochmat Adam by Avraham Danzig ( Poland, 1748 – 1820 ) are similar Ashkenazi works, but are regarded as a more appropriate basis for practice.

The sons of Montgolfier obtained an English patent for an improved version in 1816, and this was acquired, together with Whitehurst's design, in 1820 by Josiah Easton, a Somerset-born engineer who had just moved to London.

Polk was admitted to the bar in June 1820 and his first case was to defend his father against a public fighting charge, and secure his release for a one dollar fine.

The two men remained in Naples for a week before heading off to Rome in a small carriage, where they arrived mid-November 1820 and met Keats's physician, Dr. James Clark.

The I-Kiribati or Gilbertese people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands ( named for British captain Thomas Gilbert by von Krusenstern in 1820 ) some time in between 3000 BC and 1300 AD.

The Kansas – Nebraska Act of 1854 () created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory.

A wave of indignation erupted across the North as anti-slavery elements cried betrayal, for Kansas had been officially closed to slavery since the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and that Compromise was now repealed because of popular sovereignty.

Ranjit Deo's grandnephew, Gulab Singh, subsequently sought service at the court of Ranjit Singh, distinguished himself in later campaigns, especially the annexation of the Kashmir valley, and, for his services, was appointed governor of Jammu in 1820.