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  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 August - 21 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  On this day in history johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer  

1808  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 August - 21 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  On August - 21 jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.  

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 this day in history john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70  

1825  On this day in history kate Fanny Loder, composer  

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  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 this day in history.  

1841  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind  

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

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  On August - 21 tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.  

1852  On this day in history benedetto Junck, composer  

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

1856  On this day in history 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 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 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  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 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 August - 21.  

1131  Boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies on this day in history.  

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on this day in history.  

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on this day in history.  

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 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  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)