Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

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

1785  Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

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  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian on this day in history.   

1806  On this day in history johannes Frederick Frohlich, composer   

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 this day in history.   

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

1810  On August - 21 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 this day in history.   

1821  On this day in history william Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1824  On this day in history john Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897   

1824  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on August - 21.   

1825  On this day in history kate Fanny Loder, composer   

1829  On this day in history 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 this day in history john Hampson patents venetian blind   

1841  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1852  Benedetto Junck, composer on this day in history.   

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

1856  On August - 21 peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64   

1857  First book published by an Australian female author Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history birth of francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint   

1597  Roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672) was born on August - 21.   

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

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 this day in history godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  On this day in history alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

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

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

1581  On this day in history 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.