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 this day in history 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 this day in history jules Michelet, French historian (History of France, L'Amour)   

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  On August - 21 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.   

1809  Francesco Schira, composer on August - 21.   

1810  On August - 21 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  Quebec has an early season snowfall. WOW that is early even for us Canadians!! on August - 21.   

1821  On August - 21 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  John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

1825  On this day in history kate Fanny Loder, composer   

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 this day in history.   

1841  John Hampson patents venetian blind on August - 21.   

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

1841  On August - 21 john Hampton patents venetian blind   

1842  The city of Hobart, Tasmania, is founded on this day in history.   

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

1852  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 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  Philip II Augustus, 1st great Capetian king of France (1179-1223) was born on August - 21.   

1535  On August - 21 birth of shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1619)   

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  On August - 21 birth of johann Friedrich Treiber, composer   

1643  On August - 21 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  Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (d. 1729) was born on this day in history.   

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 August - 21 godfried III, duke of Brabant (Grimbergse war), dies   

1245  On August - 21 alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies   

1271  On this day in history death of alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (b. 1220)   

1516  On August - 21 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  On August - 21 death of elizabeth Báthory, the world's most prolific female serial killer (b. 1560)