Historical Events In August - 21

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

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on this day in history.   

1789  Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician on this day in history.   

1796  On August - 21 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.   

1798  Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) on August - 21.   

1798  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on August - 21.   

1801  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian on August - 21.   

1806  On August - 21 johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer   

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 August - 21.   

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  On this day in history jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.   

1821  On August - 21 william Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1824  John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on August - 21.   

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57   

1841  On August - 21 john Hampson patents venetian blind   

1841  On August - 21 the Venetian blind is patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, but he didn't tell us how to clean them!   

1841  John Hampton patents venetian blind on August - 21.   

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

1847  Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader on this day in history.   

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  Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory on this day in history.   

1852  Benedetto Junck, composer on August - 21.   

1856  America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856) on this day in history.   

1856  On August - 21 peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1857  On August - 21 first book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.   

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

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1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

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

1642  On this day in history birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

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

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.   

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

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 this day in history.