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| 1820 |
| | | The British king George III dies after 59 years on the throne – a longer reign than any of his predecessors | |
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| 1820 |
| | | On the death of his father, George III, the Prince Regent succeeds to the British throne as George IV | |
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| 1820 |
| | | Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme | |
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| 1820 |
| | | French physicist André Marie Ampère begins his researches into the links between electricity and magnetism | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine and Missouri to the union, keeps the balance between 'free' and 'slave' states in the US senate | |
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| 1820 |
| | | A second liberal revolution in Spain ends with Ferdinand VII a prisoner of the Cortes in Cadiz | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence | |
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| 1820 |
| | | 7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine | |
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