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.

* Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk ( 1771 – 1820 ), founder of the Red River Colony

The Lake was named on 28 October 1820 for King George III by Governor Macquarie, who was touring the area as part of a Royal Commission to inquire into the condition of the Colony.

In 1820 he was ordered to the Cape Colony and was sent to Grahamstown to supervise the medical care of European soldiers and soldiers of the Cape Corps.

The first Anglican clergyman in the Northwest interior of Canada was Reverend John West who, in 1820, established the first Anglican school in the Red River Colony.

From 1820 to 1821 he administered the Cape Colony with success as acting Governor, and named the rising seaport of Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth in memory of his wife.

* 1810 to 1820 Returns of convicts in the Colony on 1 January 1810 and of those who arrived up until September 1820.

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.

In 1820, King George III died and the Duke faced financial ruin from debts ; the same year saw the Colony of Cape Breton Island merged again into the Colony of Nova Scotia.

Port Elizabeth was founded as a town in 1820 to house British settlers as a way of strengthening the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa.

In 1820 a party of 4, 000 British settlers arrived by sea, encouraged by the government of the Cape Colony as a settlement would strengthen the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa people.

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

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 ).

From 1784 to 1820, Cape Breton Island was established as a separate colony with a Lieutenant Governor and a nominated Executive Council, but without an elected house of assembly.

Not until after Cape Breton Island was re-annexed to Nova Scotia in 1820 did it receive representation in an elected legislature.

Although subdivided into three districts in 1824, Cape Breton County was co-extensive with Cape Breton Island from 1820 to 1835 when the county was divided into three separate and distinct counties:

In 1820, upon the advice of Lord Somerset, parliament voted to spend £ 50, 000 to promote migration to the Cape, prompting 4, 000 British people to emigrate.

In 1820 one traveler reported seeing 60 " Indians ", 60 " runaway slaves ", and 27 boats of Bahamian wreckers preparing to leave Cape Florida.

Sailing from St. Petersburg, he arrived at Nizhnekolymsk on 2 November 1820, and early in 1821 journeyed to Cape Schelagin ( Shelagsky?

He arrived at Cape Town in 1820, where he made his fortune in grain trade.

The lake was named after George Robert Ainslie, the Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton Island from 1816 to 1820, when Cape Breton became part of Nova Scotia.

In 1820 these two units were again combined under a unified command and renamed the Cape Corps.

Albany became the destination for the 1820 Settlers by the Cape Colony's new British masters.

* 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.

The history of the SAAO began when the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope was founded in 1820, the first scientific institution in Africa.

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 ".

William Ellery ( December 22, 1727 – February 15, 1820 ) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Rhode Island.

* William Paine Sheffield, Sr. ( 1820 – 1907 ), U. S. Representative and Senator from Rhode Island

Julia Gardiner Tyler was born in 1820 on Gardiner's Island off the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.

The island was formally named South Borodino Island after being discovered by the Russian marine vessel Borodino in 1820.

Peleg Arnold ( 1751 – 1820 ) was a lawyer, tavern-keeper, jurist, and statesman from Smithfield, Rhode Island ( now North Smithfield ).

George Uglow Pope was born on 24 April 1820 in Prince Edward Island in Canada.

Bransfield landed on King George Island and took formal possession on behalf of King George III ( who had died the day before on 29 January 1820 ), before proceeding in a south-westerly direction past Deception Island not investigating or charting it.

Also located on Grindstone Island, Fatima was settled between 1820 and 1845.

The first Europeans arrived in the Canberra region in 1820 and a year later, a third expedition led by Charles Throsby reached the Murrumbidgee River near the present-day Pine Island and the valley now occupied by the Tuggeranong district.

Bingham and his wife arrived first on the Island of Hawaii in 1820, and then sailed on to Honolulu April 19th.

In 1817 the French pirate Jean Lafitte settled on Galveston Island ; his colony there grew to more than 1, 000 persons by 1818 but was abandoned in 1820.

This feature is named after Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer ; an American sealer who explored the Antarctic Peninsula area southward of Deception Island in the Hero in November, 1820.

James Burrill, Jr. ( April 25, 1772December 25, 1820 ) was a Federalist-party United States senator representing the state of Rhode Island.

The Russian abacus was brought to France around 1820 by the mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who served in Napoleon's army and had been a prisoner of war in Russia.

As well as holding positions at this school until 1828, in 1819 and 1820 Ampère offered courses in philosophy and astronomy, respectively, at the University of Paris, and in 1824 he was elected to the prestigious chair in experimental physics at the Collège de France.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

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

Anne, the youngest member of the Brontë children, was born on 17 January 1820, at 74 Market Street in Thornton where her father was curate and she was baptised there on 25 March 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.

A significant contribution to the chemistry of alkaloids in the early years of its development was made by the French researchers Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, who discovered quinine ( 1820 ) and strychnine ( 1818 ).

In 1820 the city wall was torn down, with the exception of the individual towers and gates, and the defensive ditches were filled in.

The relation between electric current, magnetic fields and physical forces was first noted by Hans Christian Ørsted who, in 1820, observed a compass needle was deflected from pointing North when a current flowed in an adjacent wire.

The trumpet was a natural brass instrument prior to about 1795, and the horn before about 1820.

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

Therefore, by the end of the decade, some Cubans were inspired by the successes of Simón Bolívar, despite the fact that the Spanish Constitution was restored in 1820.

When the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in 1820, the captain opted to sail 3000 miles upwind to Chile rather than 1400 miles downwind to the Marquesas because he had heard the Marquesans were cannibals.

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.

The cornet was originally derived from the post horn around 1820 in France.