1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

• March 25 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
• June 19 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
• June 24 - Simón Bolívar wins the Battle of Carabobo, ensuring Venezuela's independency from Spain. (See _independence.)
• July 10 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
• July 19 - George IV is crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
• July 28 - Peru declares independence from Spain. (See Peru's Independence from Spain).
• August 10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. (See History of Missouri.)
• September 11 - Greek War of Independence - Tripoli, Greece falls to attacking Greeks; Greeks proceed to kill most of the Turkish population
• September 15 - Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica gain independence from Spain. (See History of Central America)
• September 18 - Amherst College is founded.
• September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain. (See Mexican War of Independence.)
• November 9 - the first US pharmacy college holds classes in Philadelphia.
• November 16 - American Old West: Santa Fe Trail used by first White American.
• November 28 - Panama declares independence from Spain. (See History of Panama).

Births

• January 8 - James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
• January 8 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
• February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first American female physician (d. 1910)
• February 11 - Hermann Allmers, writer (d. 1902)
• February 11 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
• February 17 - Lola Montez, Irish Spanish dancer and royal mistress (d. 1861)
• February 19 - August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868)
• March 1 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
• April 3 - Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892)
• April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer (d. 1867)
• 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)
• July 1 - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1904)
• July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
• August 10 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
• September 28 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs African-American minister and politician (d. 1874)
• October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
• November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
• December 12 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
• December 25 - Clara Barton, First president of American Red Cross (d. 1912)
• Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1893)
• Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)

Deaths

• January 4 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
• February 23 - John Keats, British poet (b. 1795)
• March 13 - John Hunter, second Governor of New South Wales (b. 1737)
• May 5 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
• May 19 - Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• June 7 - Tudor Vladimirescu, Wallachian rebellion-leader (b. cca. 1780)
• September 10 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian
• October 11 - John Ross Key commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (b. 1754)
• November 8 - Jean Rapp, French general (b. 1771)

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