1821

This article is about the year 1821.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	18th century – 19th century – 20th century
Decades:	1790s  1800s  1810s  – 1820s –  1830s  1840s  1850s
Years:	1818 1819 1820 – 1821 – 1822 1823 1824

1821 in topic:

Humanities

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music

By country

Australia – Brazil - Canada – Denmark - France – Germany – Mexico – Norway - Philippines - Portugal– Russia - South Africa – Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom – United States

Other topics

Rail Transport – Science – Sports

Lists of leaders

Colonial Governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1821 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1821 MDCCCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2574
Armenian calendar	1270 ԹՎ ՌՄՀ
Assyrian calendar	6571
Bengali calendar	1228
Berber calendar	2771
British Regnal year	1 Geo. 4 – 2 Geo. 4
Buddhist calendar	2365
Burmese calendar	1183
Byzantine calendar	7329–7330
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4517 or 4457     — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4518 or 4458
Coptic calendar	1537–1538
Discordian calendar	2987
Ethiopian calendar	1813–1814
Hebrew calendar	5581–5582
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1877–1878
- Shaka Samvat	1743–1744
- Kali Yuga	4922–4923
Holocene calendar	11821
Igbo calendar	821–822
Iranian calendar	1199–1200
Islamic calendar	1236–1237
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 4 (文政４年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4154
Minguo calendar	91 before ROC 民前91年
Thai solar calendar	2363–2364

1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Julian calendar, the 1821st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 821st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1820s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1821 is 12 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–March

• January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic first sighted by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
• January 28 – Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.
• February 9 – Columbian College of the District of Columbia is chartered by President Monroe.
• March 4 – James Monroe is sworn in for his second term as President of the United States.
• March 25 (O.S.)/April 6 (N.S.) – Metropolitan bishop Germanos of Patras raises the revolutionary flag of Greece at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, symbolically marking the beginning of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire; later celebrated as Greece's traditional Independence Day.

April–June

• April 10 – Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is blamed by the Ottoman government for being unable to suppress Greek independence and is hanged outside the main gate of the Patriarchal Cathedral immediately after the celebration of Easter.
• May 5 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena of stomach cancer.
• May 26 – Establishment of the Peloponnesian Senate by the Greek rebels.
• June 14 – King Badi VII of Sennar surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
• June 19 – The Filiki Eteria are decisively defeated by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
• June 24 – Battle of Carabobo: Simón Bolívar wins Venezuela's independence from Spain.
• June 27 – The New Hampton School is founded in the United States state of New Hampshire.

July–September

• 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.
• August 10 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state (see History of Missouri).
• August 19 – Navarino massacre: Greek rebels massacre 3,000 inhabitants of the city of Navarino.
• August 21 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.
• August 24 – Treaty of Córdoba signed in Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico, ratifying the Plan of Iguala of February 24 for Mexico's independence from Spain and, although not recognised by the latter, effectively concludes the Mexican War of Independence.
• September 4
  • Chilean general José Miguel Carrera is executed by an Argentinian military tribunal in the city of Mendoza.
  • The Ukase of 1821: Russia proclaims territorial sovereignty over Northwestern North America, modern-day Alaska.
• September 7 – The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
• September 15 – Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica gain independence from Spain by the Act of Independence of Central America. On October 29, the newly independent First Mexican Empire proposes that Guatemala should merge with it.
• September 18 – Amherst College is founded in Massachusetts.
• September 23 – Greek War of Independence: Siege of Tripolitsa ends when Greek rebels capture the city of Tripoli, Greece.
• September 27 – The Army of the Three Guarantees enters Mexico City and the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain is proclaimed, following the Mexican War of Independence.

October–December

• November 16 – American Old West: The Santa Fe Trail is first used by William Becknell.
• November 28 – Panama declares independence from Spain, joining Gran Colombia.
• December 1 – The Dominican Republic declares independence from Spain (see History of the Dominican Republic). It will be invaded by Haiti in 1822.
• December 6 – The South Orkney Islands are discovered by George Powell and Nathaniel Palmer.
• December 15 – The world's first geographical society, the Société de géographie, is established in Paris.
• December 19 – The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland begins to erupt.

Date unknown

• High-quality cotton is introduced in Egypt.

The oath in Agia Lavra, March 25, 1821

The coronation banquet for George IV

Births

January–June

• January 8
  • James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
  • W. H. L. Wallace, American Civil War general (d. 1862)
• January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, United States Vice president and Confederate Secretary of State (d. 1875).
• February 3 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first American female physician (d. 1910).
• February 11
  • Hermann Allmers, writer (d. 1902)
  • 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)
• March 9 – John Watts de Peyster, American author, philanthropist, and soldier (d. 1907)
• March 12 – Sir John Abbott, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
• March 15 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)
• April 3 – Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale English mystic (d. 1892)
• April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer (d. 1867)
• May 6 – Edmund Colhoun, American admiral (d. 1897)
• 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)
• June 16 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908)
• June 26 – Bartolomé Mitre, Argentine statesman, military figure, and author, sixth President of Argentina (d. 1906)

July–December

Louis Vuitton

Hermann von Helmholtz

Rudolf Virchow

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• July 1 – Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1904)
• July 2 – Charles Tupper, 6th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
• July 9
  • George Cavendish-Bentinck, British Conservative politician (d. 1891)
  • Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, British parson (d. 1887)
• July 16 – Mary Baker Eddy, American founder of Christian Science (d. 1910)
• July 18 – Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
• July 24 – William Poole, infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (d. 1855)
• July 27 – George H. Cooper, United States Navy admiral (d. 1891)
• August 10 – Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
• August 21 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer (d. 1892)
• August 31 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (d. 1894)
• September 21 – Andrei Alexandrovich Popov, Russian admiral (d. 1898)
• 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 Dostoyevsky, Russian writer (d. 1881)
• November 30 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
• December 1 – John M. B. Clitz, American admiral (d. 1897)
• December 12 – Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
• December 24 – Gabriel García Moreno, former President of Ecuador (d. 1875)
• December 25 – Clara Barton, first president of American Red Cross (d. 1912)

Deaths

January–June

Napoleon Bonaparte

• January 4 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
• January 5 – Carlo Porta, Milanese poet (b. 1775)
• January 19 – Alexandru Suţu, prince of Moldavia (b. 1758)
• February 23 – John Keats, British poet (b. 1795)
• March 4 – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV) (b.1820)
• March 13 – John Hunter, second Governor of New South Wales (b. 1737)
• April 10 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (b. 1746)
• May 5 – Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1769)
• May 19 – Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• June 7 – Tudor Vladimirescu, Wallachian rebellion-leader (b. c. 1780)
• June 17 – Martín Miguel de Güemes, Argentine military leader (b. 1785)
• June 30 – José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, viceroy of Peru (b. 1743)

July–December

• July 4 – Richard Cosway, English artist (b. 1742)
• August 24 – John Polidori, physician and writer (b. 1795) (suicide)
• September 4 – José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and founding father (b. 1785)
• September 10 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian
• October 8 – Juan O'Donojú, viceroy of New Spain (b. 1762)
• October 11 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (b. 1754)
• October 21 – Dorothea Ackermann, German actress (b. 1752)
• November 8 – Jean Rapp, French general (b. 1771)
• December 7 – Pōmare II, king of Tahiti (b. 1782)
• December 12 – Phoebe Hessel, female soldier (b. 1713)