1821 Calendar
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1821 Historical Event(s)
January 28, 1821
– Alexander Island is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
March 23, 1821
– Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
May 12, 1821
– The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi.
June 19, 1821
– Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
July 10, 1821
– The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
July 23, 1821
– While Mora Rebellion continuing, Greeks captured Monemvasia Castle and massacred nearly 3000 Turkish inhabitants.
July 28, 1821
– José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
September 27, 1821
– Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
October 8, 1821
– The government of general José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy.
November 10, 1821
– Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama’s independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia
Who Were Born On 1821?
February 3, 1821
– Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (d. 1910)
May 8, 1821
– William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1885)
July 16, 1821
– Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
July 18, 1821
– Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
August 10, 1821
– Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
August 30, 1821
– Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian revolutionary and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi (d. 1849)
October 13, 1821
– Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
October 30, 1821
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
November 2, 1821
– Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
December 10, 1821
– Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)