Year 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of ... Santa María Chiquimula, Totonicapán department of Guatemala. February 23 - The Cato Street ...

group of radicals calling themselves the Spencean Philanthropists after Thomas Spence had been involved with such episodes as the Spa Fields riots in 1816.

On this day in 1820 the police in London foiled a conspiracy to blow up the British Cabinet and arrested the conspirators. The home-grown English Republicans were members of a ...

1820: Cato Street conspiracy. This plot to assassinate cabinet ministers failed. Among the conspirators, Jamaican-born William Davidson is hanged.

The reign of George III; the reign of George IV; the reign of William IV; Bute; Chatham; Grenville; Rockingham; the American War of Independence; the impact of the French Wars ...

George Cruikshank, Cato Street Conspiracy (1820) James Watson was the first to be tried. However, the main prosecution witness was the government spy, John Castle.

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Cato Street conspiracy A plot to murder Lord Liverpool's cabinet at dinner in February 1820 was led by Arthur Thistlewood, a follower of the agrarian

A plot in February 1820, formulated by Arthur Thistlewood (1770–1820) and fellow radical conspirators, to blow up the British Tory cabinet as it attended a dinner at the house of ...

So called from Cato Street, where their meetings were held. (1820.) The other names of these conspirators are Brunt, Davidson, Harrison, Ings, Monument, Tidd, and Wilson.