Historical Events In August - 21

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

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  On August - 21 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.   

1798  Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour) on August - 21.   

1798  On August - 21 corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62   

1801  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1809  On August - 21 francesco Schira, composer   

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  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  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 August - 21.   

1824  John Sanford Mason, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1897 on August - 21.   

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

1825  Kate Fanny Loder, composer on this day in history.   

1829  On August - 21 otto Goldschmidt, composer   

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) on this day in history.   

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

1841  John Hampson patents venetian blind on this day in history.   

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  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind   

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

1847  Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader on August - 21.   

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.   

1852  Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory on this day in history.   

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  Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

1535  Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619) was born on August - 21.   

1567  Francois de Sales, French bishop of Geneva/writer/saint was born on August - 21.   

1597  On this day in history birth of roger Twysden, English antiquarian and royalist (d. 1672)   

1642  Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer was born on this day in history.   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on August - 21.   

1660  Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building was born on August - 21.   

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  On August - 21 death of king Alfonso VII of Castile (b. 1104/1105)   

1190  On this day in history 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 August - 21.   

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

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.