Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

1780  Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar).   

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies   

1789  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.   

1798  Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)   

1798  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1801  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian.   

1806  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer   

1808  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 inaugural Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War   

1809  Francesco Schira, composer   

1810  Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates   

1810  Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

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

1821  Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances   

1821  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863.   

1824  John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897.   

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70   

1825  Kate Fanny Loder, composer.   

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer.   

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt results in the deaths of 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57.   

1841  John Hampson patents venetian blind   

1841  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.   

1842  The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded   

1847  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.   

1852  Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.   

1852  Benedetto Junck, composer.   

1856  America's inaugural consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)   

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64.   

1857  inaugural 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;   

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1165  Philip ii augustus: 1st great capetian king of france (1179-1223)   

1535  Shimazu yoshihiro: Japanese samurai and warlord   

1567  Francois de sales: French bishop of geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger twysden: English antiquarian and royalist   

1642  Johann friedrich treiber: Composer   

1643  Afonso vi: King of portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert gautier: Engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  Giacomo f. maraldi: French-italian astronomer   

1131  Boudouin ii van bourg: King of jerusalem,   

1157  Death of King alfonso vii of castile: King alfonso vii of castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  Godfried iii: Duke of brabant (grimbergse war),   

1245  Death of Alexander van hales: English scholar,   

1271  Alphonse of toulouse: Son of louis viii of france (b. 1220)   

1516  John iii van egmont: [manke john], viceroy of holland,   

1581  Sakuma nobumori: Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

1614  Elizabeth báthory: The world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)