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Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

Friday, 21 February 2025

1780  Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar) on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1789  Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1796  On this day in history mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1798  On August - 21 jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1798  On this day in history corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1801  On this day in history guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1806  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1808  On August - 21 battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1809  Francesco Schira, composer on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1810  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1810  Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1816  Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!! on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1821  On this day in history jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1821  On August - 21 william Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  On this day in history john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1825  On this day in history kate Fanny Loder, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1829  On this day in history otto Goldschmidt, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1838  On this day in history a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1841  John Hampson patents venetian blind on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1841  On this day in history the Venetian blind is patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, but he didn't tell us how to clean them!  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1841  John Hampton patents venetian blind on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1842  The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1847  On August - 21 arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  Tlingit warriors destroy Hudson's Bay Company Fort Selkirk, Yukon after the HBC tries to break the Tlingit monopoly on trade with interior tribes on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  On August - 21 tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  Benedetto Junck, composer on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1856  America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  On this day in history first book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads; on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous Birthdays In August - 21

Famous People Born On This Day In History

1165  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1597  On this day in history birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1660  On August - 21 birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In August - 21

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1157  On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1190  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1516  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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