Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

1780  On this day in history jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)   

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on August - 21.   

1789  On this day in history augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician   

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.   

1798  On August - 21 jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)   

1798  On August - 21 corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1801  On August - 21 guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian   

1806  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer on August - 21.   

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  Francesco Schira, composer on August - 21.   

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  On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

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  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on August - 21.   

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

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.   

1825  On this day in history kate Fanny Loder, composer   

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer on this day in history.   

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) on August - 21.   

1838  On August - 21 a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57   

1841  John Hampson patents venetian blind on this day in history.   

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

1841  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

1852  On this day in history benedetto Junck, composer   

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

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

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.   

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on this day in history.   

1642  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

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 August - 21.   

1131  On August - 21 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  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

1271  Death of Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220) on August - 21.   

1516  On this day in history 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.