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Saturday, 12 July 2025

1780  On this day in history jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1789  Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1796  On this day in history 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.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1798  On August - 21 jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1798  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1801  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1806  On this day in history johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1809  On August - 21 francesco Schira, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1810  Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1810  Thomas Jefferson McKean, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1812  On August - 21 silverius Muller, composer, dies at 67  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1816  Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!! on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1821  On this day in history jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1821  On this day in history william Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1825  Kate Fanny Loder, composer on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1841  On this day in history john Hampson patents venetian blind  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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!  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1841  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1842  The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1847  Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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 August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  On this day in history tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1852  On this day in history benedetto Junck, composer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1856  On this day in history america's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda. (Traditional Japanese date: July 21, 1856)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1856  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  On August - 21 first book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1857  In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads; on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous People Born On This Day In History

1165  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1567  On this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1643  On August - 21 birth of afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1665  On August - 21 birth of giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In August - 21

Famous People Died On This Day In History

1131  On this day in history boudouin II van Bourg, king of Jerusalem, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1157  On this day in history death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1190  Godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies on August - 21.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1271  On August - 21 death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1614  On this day in history death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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