1821
1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
Events February 23 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college. March 25 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence. July 10 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain. July 28 - Peru declares independence from Spain. August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper. September 15 - Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica gain independence from Spain. September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain. August 10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state. November 16 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and sells his merchandise for a huge profit (he immediately planned to return the following year over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail).In the first known obscenity case in the United States, a Massachusetts court outlawed the John Cleland novel, Fanny Hill . The publisher, Peter Holmes, was convicted for printing a "lewd and obscene" novel.
Births January 8 - James Longstreet, Confederate General (d. 1904) February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (d. 1910) February 11 - Hermann Allmers, writer (d. 1902) February 11 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist who dug out the Sphinx (d. 1881) February 17 - Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez (d. 1861) February 19 - August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868) March 1 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896) April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer (d. 1867) May 8 - Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1901 (d. 1910) May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur (d. 1885) May 17 - Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist (d. 1897) July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910) August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier (d. 1905) October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician (d. 1902) October 21 - Thomas Lyon-Bowes, the Monster of Glamis and member of the British Royal Family November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881) Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian politician 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) September 10 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian
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