What Happened in July 1821

Historical Events

Jul 2 6th Prime Minister of Canada (Conservative: 69-day term in 1896), born in Amherst, Nova Scotia

Jul 6 Edward Pettus, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Athens, Alabama (d. 1907)
Jul 8 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter, born in Antwerp (d. 1865)
Jul 8 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Urbana, Ohio (d. 1862)
Jul 10 Christopher Columbus Augur, American Major General (Union Army), born in Kendall, New York (d. 1898)
Jul 12 Cesare Dominiceti, Italian composer, born in Desenzano del Garda, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire (now Italy) (d. 1888)
Jul 12 Daniel Harvey Hill, Confederate General (American Civil War), born in York District, South Carolina (d. 1889)

Jul 13 American slave trader, Confederate lieutenant general and KKK Grand Wizard, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee

Jul 16 American founder of the religious movement, Christian Science (Science & Health), born in Bow, New Hampshire

Jul 18 Pauline Viardot, French pianist, mezzo-soprano, and composer (Cendrillon), born in Paris (d. 1910)
Jul 21 Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian foreign minister, diplomat and poet, born in Bacau, Moldova (d. 1890)

Jul 24 American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys), born in Sussex County, New Jersey