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Events on Wednesday 20 August 1823 1
1742 – 1823Pope Pius VII (1742-1823)Died 20 August 1823, aged 81Born Barnaba Chiaramonti, Pius VII reigned as pope through the Napoleonic era, including his own imprisonment by Napoleon and the signing of the 1801 Concordat with France. He presided over the restoration of the Papal States after Napoleon's fall. He died in Rome after a long pontificate marked by upheaval.