Today in History for February 1821
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Months in 1821: January March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 4 of 4
12th - Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
22nd - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
23rd - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
24th - Mexico gains independence from Spain
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 11 of 11
1st - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
3rd - Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
10th - William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864)
11th - Hermann Allmers, writer
11th - Auguste-Édouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
15th - Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
16th - Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)
17th - Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
19th - Francis Preston Blair Jr, Lexington Ky, (Rep-Missouri)
21st - Charles Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
22nd - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 5 of 5
8th - Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
21st - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
23rd - John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
23rd - Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor, dies
26th - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
