Today in History for Year 1821

Months in Year 1821: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 43 of 43

Jan 17th - Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
Jan 21st - Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
Jan 28th - Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
Feb 12th - Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
Feb 22nd - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
Feb 23rd - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
Feb 24th - Mexico gains independence from Spain
Mar 5th - Monroe is 1st pres inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
Mar 14th - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
Mar 21st - First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
Mar 23rd - Battle and fall of city of Kalamata, Greek War of Independence.
Mar 25th - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
Mar 26th - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
Apr 10th - Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Turks from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
May 8th - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia.
May 12th - The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
May 30th - James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
May 31st - Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
Jun 14th - Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
Jun 18th - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
Jun 19th - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
Jun 21st - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
Jun 23rd - Dutch troops conquer Palembang
Jun 24th - Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas
Jul 17th - Spain cedes Florida to US
Jul 28th - Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
Aug 4th - 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
Aug 6th - 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
Aug 10th - Missouri admitted as 24th US state
Aug 19th - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
Aug 21st - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.
Aug 23rd - Mexico declares independence
Sep 1st - 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
Sep 15th - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
Sep 23rd - Fall of Tripolitsa, Greece, massacre of 30.000 Turks.
Sep 27th - Mexican Empire declares its independence
Sep 27th - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
Oct 8th - The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
Nov 9th - 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
Nov 28th - Panama declares independence from Spain
Dec 1st - Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
Dec 17th - Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
Dec 28th - Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 112

Jan 4th - John James Peck, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
Jan 7th - Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General (Confed Army), died in 1891
Jan 8th - James Longstreet, Confederate general (1st Corps, ANV)
Jan 12th - Nikolai Afanisev, composer
Jan 15th - Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
Jan 21st - John Cabell Breckinridge, (D) 14th US VP (1857-61)/mjr-gen (Confed)
Jan 27th - John Chivington, American officer, (d. 1892)
Jan 29th - Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
Feb 1st - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
Feb 3rd - Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
Feb 10th - William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864)
Feb 11th - Hermann Allmers, writer
Feb 11th - Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
Feb 15th - Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
Feb 16th - Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)
Feb 17th - Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
Feb 19th - Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
Feb 21st - Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
Feb 22nd - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
Physician Elizabeth Blackwell (Feb 3rd) Mar 1st - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
Mar 12th - John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
Mar 12th - Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
Mar 14th - Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist
Mar 15th - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)
Mar 15th - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
Mar 15th - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)
Mar 16th - Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)
Mar 19th - Francis Barretto Spinola, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Mar 19th - Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
Mar 19th - William Allingham, Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
Mar 23rd - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper)
Mar 24th - Elisa Felix, [Rachel], tragedienne
Mar 24th - [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Mar 26th - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
Geographer, Explorer & Translator Richard Francis Burton (Mar 19th) Mar 29th - Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
Apr 3rd - T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892)
Apr 4th - Linus Yale, US, portrait painter/inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
Apr 9th - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
Apr 15th - Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
Apr 16th - Ford Maddox Brown, painter
Apr 19th - Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
Apr 23rd - Pierre Dupont, song writer
May 2nd - Abram Sanders Piatt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
May 8th - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885)
May 11th - [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
May 16th - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
May 17th - Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
May 21st - John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director
May 22nd - Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
May 25th - Diederich Krug, composer
Jun 2nd - Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
Jun 4th - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (d. 1897)
Jun 8th - John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897
Jun 8th - Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
Jun 12th - Henry Moses Judah, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
Jun 13th - Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
Jun 13th - Navy Gustavus Vasa Fox, Asst Secy (Union), died in 1883
Jun 14th - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
Jun 15th - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
Jun 16th - Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
Jun 26th - Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine general
Jun 27th - August Conradi, composer
Jul 2nd - Charles Tupper, (C) 6th Canadian PM (1896)
Jul 3rd - F Kornberger, writer
Jul 6th - Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
Jul 8th - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
Jul 10th - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)
Jul 12th - Cesare Dominiceti, composer
Jul 12th - Daniel Harvey Hill, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1889
Confederate General/KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest (Jul 13th) Jul 13th - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Chapel Hill Tennessee, slave trader/Confed lt-gen/KKK Grand Wizard, (d. 1877)
Jul 16th - Mary Baker Eddy, Bow New Hampshire, founded Christian Science (Science & Health), (d. 1910)
Jul 18th - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
Jul 21st - Vasile Alecsandri, Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat
Jul 24th - William Poole, American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys) (d. 1855)
Aug 4th - James White, American theologian (d. 1881)
Aug 4th - Louis Vuitton, Anchay France, Founder of the leather goods company
Aug 10th - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
Aug 14th - Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Aug 21st - William Barksdale, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
Aug 24th - Emmanuele Muzio, composer
Aug 30th - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
Aug 31st - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer
Sep 8th - Henry Baxter, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
Sep 17th - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
Luggage Maker Louis Vuitton (Aug 4th) Sep 24th - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda)
Sep 26th - Alvin Peterson Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Sep 27th - Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss/French writer (Grains de Mil)
Sep 28th - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (d. 1874)
Oct 2nd - Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lt Gen (Confederate Army)
Oct 7th - Richard Heron Anderson, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
Oct 7th - William Sill, with The Underground Railroad
Oct 11th - Angelo Maurizio Gaspare Mariani, composer
Oct 11th - George Williams, England, founder YMCA
Oct 13th - Rudolf Virchow, Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia, German politician/anthropologist/pathologist (cell pathology), (d. 1902)
Oct 16th - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
Oct 22nd - Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900)
Oct 30th - Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer
Oct 30th - Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Idiot) [NS=11/11]
Nov 2nd - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
Anthropologist/Pathologist Rudolf Virchow (Oct 13th) Nov 9th - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 36 of 36

Jan 4th - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland at 46
Jan 25th - Johan Valckenier, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 62
Feb 8th - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
Feb 21st - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
Feb 23rd - John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
Feb 23rd - Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies
Feb 26th - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
Mar 23rd - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 56
Apr 9th - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
Apr 20th - Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
Apr 22nd - John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52
May 5th - French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815), dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena
May 15th - John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54
May 19th - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
Jun 7th - Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
Jun 13th - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55
Jun 17th - Martín Miguel de Güemes Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
Jun 18th - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52
Jul 4th - Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (May 5th) Jul 9th - Tommaso Sogner, composer, dies at 58
Jul 21st - Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
Aug 1st - Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68
Aug 4th - William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
Aug 6th - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
Aug 10th - Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
Aug 29th - Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86
Sep 27th - Luis (Philippus) Brion, Curacaos admiral/supreme commander, dies at 39
Oct 4th - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (b. 1761)
Oct 9th - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
Oct 11th - John Ross Key, American judge and lawyer (b. 1754)
Oct 24th - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
Nov 10th - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
Nov 26th - Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
Dec 20th - Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75
Dec 29th - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, S Neth general, dies at 61
Dec 30th - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer, dies at 42