Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

1780  Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar) on this day in history.   

1785  On August - 21 jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies   

1789  On August - 21 augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician   

1796  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 on August - 21.   

1798  Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) on this day in history.   

1798  On this day in history corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1801  On this day in history guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian   

1806  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer on this day in history.   

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.   

1809  On August - 21 francesco Schira, composer   

1810  Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates on this day in history.   

1810  On this day in history thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1816  Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!! on August - 21.   

1821  Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances on August - 21.   

1821  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on this day in history.   

1824  On this day in history john Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1824  On this day in history john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70   

1825  On August - 21 kate Fanny Loder, composer   

1829  On August - 21 otto Goldschmidt, composer   

1831  On August - 21 nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1841  On August - 21 john Hampson patents venetian blind   

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!   

1841  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind   

1842  On August - 21 the city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.   

1847  On August - 21 arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader   

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.   

1852  On August - 21 tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.   

1852  On this day in history benedetto Junck, composer   

1856  On August - 21 america's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)   

1856  On this day in history peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1857  First book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson on this day in history.   

1857  On this day in history in one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads;   

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1165  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on this day in history.   

1597  On August - 21 birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.   

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  On this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

1157  On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  On this day in history godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on this day in history.   

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.   

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on August - 21.