Historical Events In August - 21

1780  Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar) on August - 21.   

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

1789  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1798  On this day in history jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)   

1798  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War on this day in history.   

1809  On August - 21 francesco Schira, composer   

1810  On August - 21 jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.   

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

1812  On this day in history silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67   

1816  On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

1821  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on August - 21.   

1824  On August - 21 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 this day in history otto Goldschmidt, composer   

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) on this day in history.   

1838  On this day in history a v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57   

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

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 this day in history john Hampton patents venetian blind   

1842  The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded on this day in history.   

1847  On this day in history 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  On August - 21 tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.   

1852  On August - 21 benedetto Junck, composer   

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

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

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

1857  On August - 21 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) was born on this day in history.   

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

1567  On August - 21 birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

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  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  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on August - 21.   

1157  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

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

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on August - 21.   

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

1516  On this day in history john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  On August - 21 death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

1614  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)