What happened on January 20?

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Discover what happened on January 20 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!

Births

  • 1800: Christophe Moehrlen (Swiss pastor and writer (1800-1871))
  • 1800: Jacob Aaron Westervelt (Mayor of New York City (1800–1879))
  • 1800: Józef Kowalewski (Polish orientalist (1800–1878))
  • 1800: Michel Clement (Luxembourgish politician (1800-1872))
  • 1800: Domènec Forcadell i Mitjavila (Spanish military personnel (1800-1866))
  • 1800: Johann Friedrich Frey ((1800-1884))
  • 1800: Antoine-Étienne Julien (French magistrate and politician)
  • 1800: Maxime Labourt
  • 1800: Ignatius Sargent (Boston merchant and banker, 1800-1884)
  • 1800: James L. Langworthy (January 20, 1800–March 14, 1865)
  • 1801: Hippolyte Bayard (French photographer (1801–1887))
  • 1801: Alexandre Dechet (French actor (1801-1830))
  • 1801: Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (Baltic German geologist (1801-1871))
  • 1802: Samuel Gottlieb Müller (politician (1802-1880))
  • 1802: Alexander August Buchholtz (German jurist)
  • 1802: Ignacy
  • 1802: John Romilly, 1st Baron Romilly (English Whig politician and judge (1802-1874))
  • 1802: Léonidas Baron (French politician)
  • 1802: Alexander Morison, 7th of Bognie ((1802-1874))
  • 1802: Thomas Salt ((1802-1871))
  • 1802: Johannes Franz Waldmann ((1802-1869))
  • 1802: Gustav Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher
  • 1802: Edvard Ruuth
  • 1802: Anthonie Daniel de Ravallet
  • 1802: Galen Hunter (American pharmacist (1802–1872))
  • 1802: Alexis Huart
  • 1804: Jane Hall (20 Jan 1804 Wallingford, CT – 27 Sep 1848 Elmwood, Ill.)
  • 1804: Tommaso Bianchi (Italian poet (1804-1834))
  • 1804: Mary Hosier (20 Jan 1804 -)
  • 1804: Sebastian Czepiel
  • 1804: Matthias Ranftl (Austrian painter (1804-1854))
  • 1804: Jean-Jacques Altmeyer (Belgian historian and writer (1804–1877))
  • 1804: José de Meneses Pita e Castro
  • 1804: Christian Piil (Danish photographer (1804-1884))
  • 1804: John Jones (Welsh biblical commentator)
  • 1804: Pierre Clément (magistrate)
  • 1804: Mary Ann Pizzey ((1804-1886))
  • 1804: Jules Vulliet ((1804-1848))
  • 1804: Jane Hall (20 Jan 1804 Wallingford, CT – 27 Sep 1848 Elmwood, Ill.)
  • 1804: Tommaso Bianchi (Italian poet (1804-1834))
  • 1804: Mary Hosier (20 Jan 1804 -)
  • 1804: Sebastian Czepiel
  • 1808: Joannes Corbisier (chaplain)
  • 1810: Arnold Förster (German entomologist (1810–1884))
  • 1810: Georg von Knebel Doeberitz (German politician (1810-1880))
  • 1810: Gustav Christian Gjøs (Norwegian politician (1810-1889))
  • 1810: Luigi Filippi
  • 1810: Josef Pál Király (Hungarian writer (1810-1887))
  • 1810: Aleksandr Golitsyn-Prozorovsky
  • 1810: David Jakob Assur
  • 1810: Otto Wilhelm August von Mirbach (Prussian lieutenant general (1810-1882))
  • 1810: Sir John Murray-Macgregor, 3rd Baronet (Scottish baronet and colonial administrator)
  • 1810: Armand Schaumburg ((1810-1861))
  • 1810: Tytus Okwietko-Szyszłło
  • 1810: Louis Dubois (French curate (1810-1875))
  • 1811: Carl Otto von Karstedt (politician (1811-1888))
  • 1811: Vincent Vidal (French painter (1811-1887))
  • 1811: Wood Boulden (American politician (1811-1876))
  • 1811: Isobel Graham Finlayson (English-born diarist and artist (1811-1890))
  • 1811: Sir William Wellesley Knighton, 2nd Baronet ((1811-1885), landowner)
  • 1811: Josef Degn (* 20.1.1811Hohenruppersdorf/NÖ, † 7.5.1892Salzburg. Schullehrer, Organist.)
  • 1811: Margaret Elizabeth Murray ((1811-1856))
  • 1811: Amanda Root (20 Jan 1811 – 9 Oct 1902)
  • 1813: Mary Hathaway Watson (20 Jan 1813 – 20 Dec 1890)
  • 1813: Pál Angyal (Hungarian politician (1813-1867))
  • 1816: Jules Morel (French politician (1816–1873))
  • 1816: Xavier Gargan (French inventor (1816-1886))
  • 1816: Enrique O’Donnell Joris (politician)
  • 1816: Pieter Oosterhuis (Dutch photographer, painter, draughtsman and copyist (1816-1885))
  • 1816: Solomon Blay (English convict (1816–1897))
  • 1816: Hugo Sonnenkalb
  • 1816: Otto Heinrich Fehlandt
  • 1816: Jan Hejtmánek
  • 1816: Yekaterina Musina-Pushkina ((1816-1897))
  • 1816: Jules Morel (French politician (1816–1873))
  • 1816: Xavier Gargan (French inventor (1816-1886))
  • 1816: Hugo Sonnenkalb
  • 1816: Otto Heinrich Fehlandt
  • 1816: Enrique O’Donnell Joris (politician)
  • 1816: Pieter Oosterhuis (Dutch photographer, painter, draughtsman and copyist (1816-1885))
  • 1816: Solomon Blay (English convict (1816–1897))
  • 1816: Jan Hejtmánek
  • 1816: Yekaterina Musina-Pushkina ((1816-1897))
  • 1816: Jules Morel (French politician (1816–1873))
  • 1816: Xavier Gargan (French inventor (1816-1886))
  • 1816: Enrique O’Donnell Joris (politician)
  • 1816: Pieter Oosterhuis (Dutch photographer, painter, draughtsman and copyist (1816-1885))
  • 1816: Solomon Blay (English convict (1816–1897))
  • 1816: Hugo Sonnenkalb
  • 1816: Otto Heinrich Fehlandt
  • 1816: Jan Hejtmánek
  • 1816: Yekaterina Musina-Pushkina ((1816-1897))
  • 1816: Jean-François Desjacques
  • 1816: Joannes Van Cauwelaert (coadjutor)
  • 1819: Jakob Heinrich Hirschfeld
  • 1819: Ágoston Fischer (Hungarian journalist)
  • 1819: Göran Fredrik Göransson (Swedish merchant, ironmaster and industrialist (1819-1900))
  • 1819: Edward Milner (British gardener (1819–1884))
  • 1819: Luigi Arcozzi Masino (Italian agronomist (1819–1899))
  • 1819: John Chambers (pastoralist)
  • 1819: Anton Halúzka
  • 1819: Alessandro Biagi
  • 1819: Jakob Heinrich Hirschfeld
  • 1819: Edward Sampson-Eardley Cousins Eardley ((born 1819))
  • 1819: Caroline Collins Ray ((1819-1890))
  • 1819: Louis McLane (American financier (1819-1905))
  • 1820: Georg Peter Eduard von Lambsdorff
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  • 1820: Frederick Brendel (German born American botanist and physician (1820-1912))
  • 1820: Rufus H. King (American politician (1820–1890))
  • 1820: Anne Clough (English suffragist and educator (1820–1892))
  • 1820: James W. Quiggle (American lawyer and politician (1820–1878))
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  • 1820: Robert McKnight (American politician (1820–1885))
  • 1820: Sebastião Dias Laranjeira
  • 1820: E. B. Teague (American Baptist minister (1820-1902))
  • 1820: Nathaniel Farnsworth (American politician)
  • 1820: Julius Ernst von Günthert
  • 1820: Domenico Ragona (astronomer)
  • 1820: Gustav Traugott Anding
  • 1820: Eduard Ritter (RITTER, Eduard (1820 – 1892), Lithographer, draughtsman)
  • 1820: John Arthur Howard Gorges ((1820-1903))
  • 1820: Heinrich Friedrich von Westerholt ((1820-1859))
  • 1820: Samuel Palmer ((1820-1903))
  • 1820: Jacintha Charlotte Eyre ((born 1820))
  • 1820: Albert Semsey de Semse (Hungarian aristocrat and politician (1820-1873))
  • 1820: František X. Umlauf (Roman Catholic priest, theologian and journalist)
  • 1820: Mary Churchill ((20 Jan 1820 – certain 11 Feb 1881))
  • 1820: Sebastian Rass
  • 1820: Franz de Paula Gatscher (medical examiner)
  • 1820: Romuald Świerzbieński
  • 1820: Ludwig Bloedau
  • 1824: Emilian Czyrniański (Polish chemist (1824-1888))
  • 1824: Hermann Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein (American engineer (1824–1907))
  • 1824: Antonio Cozzolino
  • 1824: Carl Henrik Sandelin
  • 1824: Carl Schjøll
  • 1824: Ferdinand Terris (Roman Catholic bishop)
  • 1824: Leo Graf Larisch von Mönnich ((1824-1872))
  • 1824: Asa P. Ferry (American politician)
  • 1824: Carl Fiegel (German painter)
  • 1824: Petrus Van de Weghe (coadjutor)
  • 1824: Juan Manuel Cabello de la Vega
  • 1824: Emilian Czyrniański (Polish chemist (1824-1888))
  • 1824: Hermann Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein (American engineer (1824–1907))
  • 1825: Theodor Hagberg (Swedish translator (1825–1893))
  • 1825: Yamanobe Yoshimasa
  • 1825: Károly Eberhardt (Hungarian officer (1825-1906))
  • 1825: Gaetano Foresio (religious servant and numismatist (1825-1899))
  • 1825: Hardman Earle ((1825-1853))
  • 1825: Sarah Ann Davis ((1825-1901))
  • 1825: Edmond Lecouturier (curate)
  • 1825: Károly Eberhardt (Hungarian officer (1825-1906))
  • 1825: Eugène d’Halwin de Piennes (French politician and diplomat (1825-1911))
  • 1825: Georg Merck (German chemist (1825–1873))
  • 1825: Yamanobe Yoshimasa
  • 1825: Theodor Hagberg (Swedish translator (1825–1893))
  • 1825: Gaetano Foresio (religious servant and numismatist (1825-1899))
  • 1825: Hardman Earle ((1825-1853))
  • 1825: Sarah Ann Davis ((1825-1901))
  • 1825: Edmond Lecouturier (curate)
  • 1826: Louisa Henriette Cornelia van Barthold ((1826-1915))
  • 1826: Thomas Nelson Haskell (American educator (1826–1906))
  • 1826: Max Erler
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  • 1826: Cecilia Sarah De Lisle (letter correspondent of Guido Gezelle (1826-1879))
  • 1826: Hermann Scherenberg (German illustrator and painter (1826-1897))
  • 1826: William Bonaparte-Wyse (Irish soldier and poet in Occitan language (1826–1892))
  • 1826: Ferdinand Moreau (French politician (1826-1884))
  • 1827: Gustav Richter
  • 1827: Abel-Antoine Ronjat (French politician (1827-1892))
  • 1827: François Mader (French pipeorgan builder from Marseille)
  • 1827: Carl Johan Slotte (Finnish politician (1827-1903))
  • 1827: Sebastião Gonçalves da Silva (Brazilian politician