Historical Events In August - 21

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

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 August - 21.  

1798  Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) on this day in history.  

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

1801  On this day in history guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian  

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 August - 21.  

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1810  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.  

1810  Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on August - 21.  

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

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 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  On August - 21 kate Fanny Loder, composer  

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer on this day in history.  

1831  On this day in history nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)  

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

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  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind  

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

1847  Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader on this day in history.  

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 August - 21.  

1852  On August - 21 benedetto Junck, composer  

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

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

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

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  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on August - 21.  

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 this day in history.  

1665  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.  

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies  

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

1190  On August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies  

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  John III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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

1614  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)