Page 2: Historical Events In August - 21

1780  Jernej Kopitar, Slovenian censor (Slovenian Grammar) on August - 21.   

1785  On August - 21 jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies   

1789  Augustin-Louis, Baron Cauchy, French mathematician on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1798  Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1801  Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian on August - 21.   

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 August - 21.   

1809  Francesco Schira, composer on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1816  On August - 21 quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!!   

1821  On this day in history jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.   

1821  William Barksdale, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on August - 21.   

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

1824  On this day in history john Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70   

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

1829  Otto Goldschmidt, composer on this day in history.   

1831  Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia) on August - 21.   

1838  A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57 on August - 21.   

1841  On August - 21 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 August - 21.   

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

1847  On August - 21 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  On this day in history tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.   

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 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  In one of Australia's worst maritime disasters, 121 people drown when the Dunbar sinks off Sydney Heads; on this day in history.   

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1165  On August - 21 birth of philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223)   

1535  On this day in history 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  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  Afonso VI, king of Portugal (1656-67) (mentally ill) was born on this day in history.   

1660  On this day in history birth of hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building   

1665  On August - 21 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  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 this day in history.   

1516  On August - 21 john III van Egmont, [Manke John], viceroy of Holland, dies at 78   

1581  Death of Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527) on August - 21.   

1614  Death of Elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560) on this day in history.