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Information about 1821

Centuries:	18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1818 1819 1820 - 1821 - 1822 1823 1824

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Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1821

January - March

March 4 - James Monroe sworn in as President of the United States, for second term.
25 March (Julian calendar)/April 6 (Gregorian calendar) - Greece declares its liberation from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.

April - June

May 5 - Napoléon dies in exile at Saint Helena. The cause of his death is still disputed.
14 June - Badi VII, king of Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
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 independence from Spain. (See .)

July - September

July 10 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.

The coronation banquet for George IV

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.)
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.
September 7 - The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of presentday Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) was established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
September 11 - Greek War of Independence - Tripoli, Greece Greeks rebels massacre all Turkish and Jewish inhabitants of the city. (see.: Fall of Tripolitsa)
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.)

October - December

November 9 - the first American 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

**1821 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1821 MDCCCXXI
Ab urbe condita	2574
Armenian calendar	1270 ԹՎ ՌՄՀ
Bah' calendar	-23 – -22
Buddhist calendar	2365
Chinese calendar	4457/4517-7-25 (庚辰年七月廿五日) — to — 4458/4518-7-5 (辛巳年七月初五日)
Coptic calendar	1537 – 1538
Ethiopian calendar	1813 – 1814
Hebrew calendar	5581 – 5582
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1876 – 1877
- Shaka Samvat	1743 – 1744
- Kali Yuga	4922 – 4923
Holocene calendar	11821
Iranian calendar	1199 – 1200
Islamic calendar	1236 – 1237
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 0 (文政0年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2481 (皇紀2481年)
Julian calendar	1866
Korean calendar	4154
Thai solar calendar	2364
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January - June

January 8
James Longstreet, American Confederate general (d. 1904)
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)
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 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 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 - December

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)
November 30 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
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)

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Deaths

January - June

January 4 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (b. 1774)
January 19 - Alexandru Suţu, prince of Moldavia (b. 1758)
February 23 - John Keats, British poet (b. 1795)
March 4 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (b.1820), daughter of William, Duke of Clarence (later King William IV).
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)
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

September 10 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian
September 15 - Maria Branwell Brontë, mother to famous British authors Charlotte and Emily Brontë
September 28 - 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)
November 8 - Jean Rapp, French general (b. 1771)
December 7 - Pomare II, king of Tahiti
December 12 - Phoebe Hessel, female soldier (b. 1713)

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Upper Paleolithic

10th millennium BC | 9th millennium BC | 8th millennium BC
7th millennium BC | 6th millennium BC | 5th millennium BC

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The 18th Century lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.

Historians sometimes specifically define the 18th Century otherwise for the purposes of their work.
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For the periodical, see .

The 19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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twentieth century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1901 and ended on December 31, 2000, according to the Gregorian calendar. Some historians consider the era from about 1914 to 1991 to be the Short Twentieth Century.
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list of decades which have articles with more information about them.

During the twentieth century, it became popular to look at that century's decades as historical entities in themselves.
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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

1760s 1770s 1780s - 1790s - 1800s 1810s 1820s
1790 1791 1792 1793 1794
1795 1796 1797 1798 1799

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French Revolution (1789 - 1799).

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s
1800 1801 1802 1803 1804
1805 1806 1807 1808 1809

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1780s 1790s 1800s - 1810s - 1820s 1830s 1840s
1810 1811 1812 1813 1814
1815 1816 1817 1818 1819

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End of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe (1803 - 1815).

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s
1820 1821 1822 1823 1824
1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

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1830 1831 1832 1833 1834
1835 1836 1837 1838 1839

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1840 1841 1842 1843 1844
1845 1846 1847 1848 1849

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Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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1850 1851 1852 1853 1854
1855 1856 1857 1858 1859

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1819 1820 1821 - 1822 - 1823 1824 1825

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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1821.

Events

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Plans are formed for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in England, as authorised by the British Parliament this year. The railway opened in 1825.

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See also: 1820 in Australia, other events of 1821, 1822 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of New South Wales- Major-General Lachlan Macquarie

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See also: 1820 in Canada, other events of 1821, 1822 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

July 17 - Construction of the Lachine Canal in Montreal begins.

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See also: 1820 in Ireland, 1822 in Ireland

Events

Births

20 February - Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial secretary and lecturer (d.1875).
28 March - William Howard Russell, journalist (d.1907).

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See also: 1820 in South Africa, other events of 1821, 1822 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.