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March 25: Start of the Greek War of
Independence 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1821st year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
821st year of the 2nd millennium,
the 21st year of the 19th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1820s decade. As of
the start of 1821, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents ·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit]
·
January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic is first sighted, by Fabian
Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. ·
January 28 – Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian
Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. ·
February 9 – Columbian College of
the District of Columbia is chartered by President Monroe. ·
March 4 – James Monroe begins his second term as
President of the United States. ·
March 5 – President James Monroe
is sworn
in for his second term. ·
March 25 (O.S.)/April 6 (N.S.)
– Metropolitan bishop Germanos of Patras raises
the revolutionary
flag of Greece at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, symbolically marking the
beginning of the Greek War of
Independence against the Ottoman Empire; later celebrated as Greece's
traditional Independence Day. April–June[edit] ·
April 10 – Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V of
Constantinople is blamed by the Ottoman government for being unable to
suppress Greek
independence, and is hanged outside the main gate of the
Patriarchal Cathedral immediately after the celebration of Easter. ·
May 5 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena of stomach cancer. ·
May 26 – The Peloponnesian Senate is
established by the Greek rebels. ·
June 14 – King Badi VII of Sennar surrenders
his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that
Sudanese kingdom. ·
June 19 – Battle of Drăgășani,
Wallachia: The Filiki Eteria are
decisively defeated by the Ottomans. ·
June 24 – Battle of Carabobo: Simón Bolívar wins Venezuela's independence from
Spain. ·
June 27 – The New Hampton School is
founded in the United States state of New Hampshire. July–September[edit]
October–December[edit] ·
October 5 – The massacre of 8,000
civilians follows the end of the Siege of Tripolitsa (Greek
forces under the command of General Theodoros
Kolokotronis had besieged the city for several months, during
the Greek War of
Independence from Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. [1] [2] ·
October 8 – Tsar Alexander I of
Russia issues an imperial ukase, guaranteeing freedom of commerce in
Russia by merchants from Persia. [3] ·
November 16 – American Old West:
The Santa Fe Trail is
first used by William Becknell. ·
November 28 – Panama declares
independence from Spain, joining Gran Colombia. ·
December 1 – The Dominican Republic declares
independence from Spain (see History
of the Dominican Republic). It would be invaded by Haiti in 1822. ·
December 6 – The South Orkney Islands are
discovered, by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer.[4][5] ·
December 15 – The world's first
geographical society, the Société de
géographie, is established in Paris. ·
December 19 – The Eyjafjallajökull volcano
in Iceland begins to erupt. Date unknown[edit] ·
The town of Al-Ubayyid, Sudan is established. ·
High-quality cotton is introduced in Egypt. Births[edit] January–June[edit]
·
January 2 – Catherine Huggins,
British actor, singer, director and manager (d. 1887) ·
James Longstreet, American Confederate general
(d. 1904) ·
W. H. L. Wallace, American Civil War general
(d. 1862) ·
January 16 – John C. Breckinridge,
the 14th Vice
President of the United States (1857-1861) and Confederate
Secretary of State in 1865 (d. 1875) ·
February 3 – Elizabeth Blackwell,
first American female physician (d. 1910) ·
Hermann Allmers, German writer (d. 1902) ·
Auguste Edouard Mariette, French
Egyptologist (d. 1881) ·
February 17 – Lola Montez, Irish-Spanish dancer, royal
mistress (d. 1861) ·
Francis Preston
Blair Jr., American politician, American Civil War officer
(d. 1875) ·
August Schleicher,
German linguist (d. 1868) ·
February 22 – Athalia Schwartz, Danish writer, journalist
and educator (d. 1871) ·
March 1 – Joseph Hubert
Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop
(d. 1896) ·
March 9 – John Watts de
Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (d. 1907) ·
March 12 – Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1893) ·
March 15 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian
(d. 1892) ·
March 31 – Henry Dunning
Macleod, Scottish economist (d. 1902) ·
April 1 – Princess
Anka Obrenović, Serbian princess (d. 1868) ·
April 3 – Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale English mystic
(d. 1892) ·
April 9 – Charles Baudelaire,
French poet, writer (d. 1867) ·
May 6 ·
Edmund Colhoun, American admiral (d. 1897) ·
Emilie Hammarskjöld,
Swedish-American musician (d. 1854) ·
May 8 – William Henry
Vanderbilt, American entrepreneur (d. 1885) ·
May 16 – Pafnuty Chebyshev,
Russian mathematician (d. 1894) ·
May 17 – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath
(d. 1897) ·
June 2 – Ion C. Brătianu,
2-Time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1891) ·
June 16 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908) ·
June 26 – Bartolomé Mitre,
Argentine statesman, military figure, and author, 6th President of Argentina
(d. 1906) July–December[edit]
·
July 1 – Anatole
Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist
(d. 1904) ·
July 2 – Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1915) ·
July 9 ·
George
Cavendish-Bentinck, British Conservative politician (d. 1891) ·
Adolphus
Frederick Alexander Woodford, British parson (d. 1887) ·
July 13 – Nathan Bedford
Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877) ·
July 16 – Mary Baker Eddy, American founder of
Christian Science (d. 1910) ·
July 17 – Friedrich Engelhorn,
German industrialist and founder of BASF (d. 1902) ·
July 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano,
composer (d. 1910) ·
July 24 – William Poole, infamous member of New York
City's Bowery Boys gang
(d. 1855) ·
July 27 – George H. Cooper, United States Navy admiral
(d. 1891) ·
August 10 – Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905) ·
August 16 – Arthur Cayley, English mathematician
(d. 1895) ·
August 21 – Louis Vuitton,
French fashion designer (d. 1892) ·
August 31 – Hermann von
Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894) ·
September 21 – Andrei
Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (d. 1898) ·
September 28 – Jonathan Clarkson
Gibbs, African-American minister, politician (d. 1874) ·
October 13 – Rudolf Virchow, German physician,
pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902) ·
October 20 – Eufrosina Popescu,
Romanian actress (d. 1900) ·
November 11 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Russian writer (d. 1881) ·
November 30 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of
Canterbury (d. 1902) ·
December 1 – John M. B. Clitz, American admiral (d. 1897) ·
December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880) ·
December 22 – Junius Brutus
Booth, Jr., American actor, theatre manager (d. 1883) ·
December 24 – Gabriel García
Moreno, former President of Ecuador (d. 1875) ·
December 25 – Clara Barton, first president of American
Red Cross (d. 1912) Date unknown[edit] ·
Giuseppe Bonavia, Maltese architect
(d. 1885) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 4 – Elizabeth Ann Seton,
American saint (b. 1774) ·
January 5 – Carlo Porta, Milanese poet (b. 1775) ·
January 19 – Alexandru Suţu,
prince of Moldavia (b. 1758) ·
February 23 – John Keats, British poet (b. 1795)[6] ·
March 4 – Princess
Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of William,
Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) (b. 1820) ·
March 13 – John
Hunter, second Governor of New South Wales (b. 1737) ·
April 10 – Patriarch
Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746) ·
April 20– Franz Karl Achard,
German chemist, physicist and biologist (b. 1753) ·
May 5 – Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (I)
of France (b. 1769) ·
May 19 – Camille
Jordan, French politician (b. 1771) ·
June 7 – Tudor Vladimirescu,
Wallachian rebel leader (b. c. 1780) ·
June 17 – Martín Miguel de
Güemes, Argentine military leader (b. 1785) ·
June 30 – José
Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, viceroy of Peru (b. 1743) July–December[edit]
·
July 4 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742) ·
August – Dorothea von Medem,
Latvian diploma, duchess of Courland (b. 1761) ·
August 24 – John William
Polidori, English physician, writer (b. 1795)
(suicide) ·
September 4 – José Miguel Carrera,
Chilean general, founding father (b. 1785) ·
September 10 – Johann
Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter, art historian (b. 1748) ·
September 14 – Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist, zoologist
(b. 1797) ·
October 4 – Marie-Louise
Lachapelle, French obstetrician (b. 1769) ·
October 8 – Juan O'Donojú,
viceroy of New Spain (b. 1762) ·
October 11 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the
American Continental Army, judge, lawyer, father of songwriter Francis Scott Key(b. 1754) ·
October 21 – Dorothea Ackermann,
German actress (b. 1752) ·
November 8 – Jean Rapp, French general (b. 1771) ·
December 7 – King Pōmare II of Tahiti (b. 1782) ·
December 12 – Phoebe Hessel, British female soldier
(b. 1713) References[edit] 1. ^ Benjamin Lieberman, Terrible
Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2013) p9 2. ^ A Global Chronology of Conflict:
From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East, ed. by Spencer C.
Tucker (ABC-CLIO, 2009) p1139 3. ^ "Commerce between Russia and
Persia— Proposed Union of the Black Sea with the Atlantic", in The
Oriental Herald (November 1826) p285 4. ^ Headland, Robert K.
(1989). Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related
historical events. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-30903-5. OCLC 185311468. 5. ^ "South Orkney Islands". Encyclopædia
Britannica Online Academic Edition. 6. ^ "BBC - History - Historic Figures: John Keats
(1795-1821)". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2017. |
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