Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

1780  Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar) on this day in history.   

1785  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

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

1806  Johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer on August - 21.   

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  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  On August - 21 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  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.   

1825  On August - 21 kate Fanny Loder, composer   

1829  On August - 21 otto Goldschmidt, composer   

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

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1841  On August - 21 john Hampson patents venetian blind   

1841  On August - 21 the Venetian blind is patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, but he didn't tell us how to clean them!   

1841  John Hampton patents venetian blind on August - 21.   

1842  The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded on August - 21.   

1847  On this day in history arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader   

1852  On August - 21 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 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 August - 21.   

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  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history.   

1643  On this day in history birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on this day in history.   

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)   

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

1157  Death of King Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105) on August - 21.   

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

1245  Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies on this day in history.   

1271  On August - 21 death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

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

1581  On August - 21 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 this day in history.