What Happened in August 1821

Historical Events

Aug 4 Russian Antarctic expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen returns to Kronshtadt after becoming the 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica

Aug 19 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII

Aug 4 James Springer White, American theologian (co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church), born in Palmyra, Maine (d. 1881)

Aug 4 French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH, born in Anchay, France

Aug 10 Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
Aug 14 Clement H. Stevens, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Norwich, Connecticut (d. 1864)
Aug 21 William Barksdale, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Smyrna, Tennessee (d. 1863)
Aug 24 Emanuele Muzio, Italian composer, born in Zibello, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1890)
Aug 29 Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, French anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs, born in Meylan, France (d. 1898)
Aug 30 Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters), born in Laguna, Santa Catarina, Brazil (d. 1849)
Aug 31 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1894)
Aug 31 Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, Bohemian clarinetist, bandleader, and composer, born in Polepy, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1899)

Aug 1 Elizabeth Inchbald [Simpson], English actress and author (Lovers' Vows, Lady Abbess), dies at 68
Aug 4 William Floyd, American soldier who signed the US Declaration of Independence, dies at 86
Aug 6 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 64
Aug 7 Caroline of Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV (1820-21), dies at 53
Aug 10 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
Aug 29 Horace Coignet, French violinist, singer and composer, dies at 86