1820

Events

 * Unknown:
 * John Murphy becomes a Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * Hugh McVay becomes a Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * James Abercrombie becomes a Member of the Alabama House of Representatives
 * July 10:
 * Thomas Bibb becomes Governor of Alabama

Births

 * February 8:
 * William Tecumseh Sherman Sr. - Acting United States Secretary of War (d. 1891)
 * December 12:
 * James Lawrence Pugh - Senator of Alabama (d. 1907)

Deaths

 * March 22:
 * Stephen Decatur Jr. - Commodore in the United States Navy (b. 1779)
 * July 10:
 * William Wyatt Bibb - Governor of Alabama (b. 1781)