1820
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Events
- George III dies.
- Cato Street Conspiracy
- First U.S. Protestant missonaries arrive aboard the brig Thaddeus from New England. They have come to fix Hawaii even though the U.S. will continue to allow chattel slavery for the next 45 years.
Timeline
- February 8: William Tecumseh Sherman is born.
- March 15: The area of Maine was separated from Massachusetts, of which it had been a non-contiguous part, and entered the Union as a State in its own right.