Historical Events In August - 21

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

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

1789  Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician on August - 21.   

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

1806  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer on this day in history.   

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 August - 21.   

1809  Francesco Schira, composer on this day in history.   

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  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 August - 21.   

1821  Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances on August - 21.   

1821  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on this day in history.   

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  Kate Fanny Loder, composer on this day in history.   

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer on August - 21.   

1831  On August - 21 nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)   

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

1841  On August - 21 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 this day in history.   

1841  John Hampton patents venetian blind on August - 21.   

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

1847  On August - 21 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  Benedetto Junck, composer on August - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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1165  On August - 21 birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

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  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1665  On this day in history birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

1131  On August - 21 boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies   

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  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

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

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.