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next turn year 1820 [surprised this game has survived this long]

events

January–March[edit]

February 23: Cato Street Conspiracy January 1 – Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7). January 20 – Indiana University Bloomington is founded as the Indiana State Seminary (renamed Indiana College in 1846). January 27 (NS) – History of Antarctica: An Imperial Russian Navy expedition, led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in Vostok with Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, sights the Antarctic ice sheet.[1] January 29 – George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the throne, on the death at Windsor Castle of his father George III (after 59 years on the throne), ending the period known as the British Regency. There will be a gap of 21 years before the title Prince of Wales is next used. January 30 – History of Antarctica: Irish Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield lands on the mainland of Antarctica.[1] February 6 Capture of Valdivia: Lord Cochrane occupies Valdivia in the name of the Republic of Chile. 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone. February 14 – Minh Mạng starts to rule in Vietnam. February 20 – A revolt begins in Santa María Chiquimula, Totonicapán department of Guatemala. February 23 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder the Cabinet of the United Kingdom is exposed in England; the principals are the last to suffer decapitation, following their hanging for treason outside Newgate Prison in London, on May 1. March 3 – A fire in Guangzhou (Canton) burns 15,000 houses and kills an undetermined number of people.[2] March 3 and March 6 – Slavery in the United States: The Missouri Compromise becomes law, allowing admission of Missouri and Maine, slave and free states respectively, as U.S. states. March 9 – King Ferdinand VII of Spain accepts the new constitution, beginning the Trienio Liberal. March 10 – The Royal Astronomical Society is founded in London. March 15 – Maine is admitted as the 23rd U.S. state. April–June[edit] April – Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism. April 1 – A Proclamation, signed "By order of the Committee of Organisation for forming a Provisional Government", begins the "Radical War" in Scotland. April 8 – The statue of the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos, c.150 BC-125 BC) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos, by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas. April 12 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. April 15 – King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart. May 1 – The last hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain is meted out to the Cato Street conspirators for treason (only hanged and beheaded). May 11 – HMS Beagle (the ship that will later take young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage) is launched at Woolwich Dockyard. May 20 – John Stuart Mill sets out on his formative boyhood trip to France. June 5 – Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of King George IV of the United Kingdom, returns to England after six years abroad in Italy, where she had been carrying on an affair; since ascending the throne in January, the King has sought to receive his government's approval for a divorce. [3] June 10 – Sir Thomas Munro is appointed as the British colonial Governor of the Madras Presidency, which encompasses most of southern India. [4] June 12 – Élie Decazes, leader of the opposition in France's Chamber of Deputies, successfully introduces the "Law of the Double Vote", a proposal to add to the 258 existing legislators by creating 172 seats that would be "selected by special electoral colleges" made up of the wealthiest 25% of voters in each of France's departments. [5] June 12 – Delegates in St. Louis, Missouri Territory approve a proposed state constitution, proclaiming that they "do mutually agree to form and establish a free and independent republic (sic), by the name of "The State of Missouri". [6] June 29 – The cause of action that will lead to the U.S. Supreme Court case known simply as The Antelope arises, when a U.S. Treasury cutter captures a ship of the same name, which is transporting 281 Africans who had been captured as slaves, in violation of the 1819 U.S. law prohibiting the slave trade. [7] July–September[edit] July – A revolt under Guglielmo Pepe forces Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies to sign a constitution modeled on the Spanish Constitution of 1812. July 20 – Saint Cronan's Boys' National School opens in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland under the title Bray Male School. It is the oldest school in Bray, and its notable pupils will include President of Ireland Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. July 26 – Union Chain Bridge, a wrought iron suspension bridge designed by Captain Samuel Brown, opens across the River Tweed, between England and Scotland. Its span of 449 ft (137 m) is the world's longest for a vehicular bridge at this time.[8] July 31 – A fire breaks out in the wine depot at the Bercy section of Paris. It is reported later that "In the absence of water to supply the engines, and attempt was made to extinguish the flames with wine— of which a lake of 50 ft. square and more than a foot deep was formed; but the fire continued to rage, as well it might, being supplied by alcohol, and great destruction of property resulted. [2] August 24 – A Constitutionalist insurrection breaks out at Oporto, Portugal. September 2 – The Daoguang Emperor succeeds the throne of the Qing Dynasty in China. September 15 – Revolution breaks out in Lisbon, against John VI of Portugal. October–December[edit] October 9 – Guayaquil declares independence from Spain. October 25–November 20 – The Congress of Troppau (Opava) is convened between the rulers of Russia, Austria and Prussia. November 17 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.) November 20 – After the sinking of the American whaleship Essex of Nantucket, by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats. They eventually resort, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive. December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1820: James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed. December 20 – The town of Tuscumbia, Alabama, is incorporated. Date unknown[edit] Early Spring – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, receives his First Vision in Palmyra, New York. (Possibly 26 March[9]) The Argentine Confederation (Argentina) establishes a penal colony in the Falkland Islands. Robert Owen devises the labour voucher. Mount Rainier erupts over what is today Seattle. 18,957 black slaves leave Luanda, Angola. The 6th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica appears. Construction work is completed on the Citadelle Laferrière in Haiti, the largest fortification in the Americas. Anchor coinage is issued for use in some British colonies.