Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

1780  On August - 21 jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)   

1785  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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 August - 21.   

1810  On August - 21 thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1812  Silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67 on August - 21.   

1816  Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!! on this day in history.   

1821  Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances on this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history william Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

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

1824  On August - 21 john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70   

1825  On August - 21 kate Fanny Loder, composer   

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer on August - 21.   

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

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1841  On this day in history 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! on August - 21.   

1841  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind   

1842  On this day in history the city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded.   

1847  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on August - 21.   

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

1857  In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads; on August - 21.   

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

1643  On this day in history 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  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.   

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 this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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

1581  On this day in history death of sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)   

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