Curated category
1820 births
- Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony was arrested on the 18th of November 1872 for the crime of casting a ballot. A U.S. Deputy Marshal came to her door in Rochester, New York…
- Victor Emmanuel IIVictor Emmanuel II rode into Rome on the 20th of September 1870, entering a city that no Italian king had controlled since the fall of the Western Roman…
- Friedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was born on the 28th of November 1820 in Barmen, a Prussian industrial town his contemporaries called the "German Manchester".
- William Tecumseh ShermanWilliam Tecumseh Sherman was born on the 8th of February, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio, and by the time he died seventy-one years later, he had helped reshape…
- Earl Van DornEarl Van Dorn died not on a battlefield but at his own desk, shot in the back of the head by a doctor who accused him of seducing his wife.
- George Templeton StrongGeorge Templeton Strong entered the world at 50 Franklin Street in New York City on the 26th of January 1820. His family background placed him within the…
- Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale was born on the 12th of May 1820 at the Villa Colombaia in Florence, Tuscany, and was named after the city of her birth.
- Lorenz FrølichLorenz Frølich entered the world on the 25th of October 1820 within a wealthy bourgeois family in Copenhagen. His father Johan Jacob Frølich ran a successful…
- John TyndallJohn Tyndall died on the 4th of December 1893 from an accidental overdose of chloral hydrate, administered by his own wife.
- Afanasy FetAfanasy Fet died on the 21st of November 1892 with a paper knife in his hand and a suicide note on the table. His secretary had just wrestled the blade away…