Timeline February 1820

Events in February 1820 3

• 1820 First settlers sail for West Africa under American colonization plan Ship Elizabeth departs New York for Sierra Leone The American Colonization Society sent the Elizabeth from New York carrying free Black Americans intending to resettle in West Africa. The venture, backed by figures who hoped to encourage free Black emigration, laid groundwork for the later founding of Liberia.
• 1820 Assassination of the Duke of Berry Heir to the French throne stabbed outside the Paris Opera Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, was fatally stabbed by the Bonapartist fanatic Louis Pierre Louvel as he left the Paris Opera. He died the next day, and the killing hardened royalist politics under the restored Bourbon monarchy.
• 1820 Cato Street Conspiracy uncovered Plot to assassinate the British cabinet foiled in London A group of radicals led by Arthur Thistlewood planned to murder the entire British cabinet at a dinner and spark a revolution. Police raided their hideout on Cato Street before the plot could be carried out, and the ringleaders were later executed.