1821

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

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 - 1821 - 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826

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.
September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
Greece declares independence from the Ottoman Empire, starting the Greek War of Independence.
August 10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
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.

Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy

1821 in literature:

Births

January 8 - James Longstreet, Confederate General (+ 1904)
February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
February 11 - Hermann Allmers[?], writer, and Auguste Edouard Mariette[?], French Egyptologist who dug out the Sphinx.
February 17 - Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez
April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer (+ 1867)
May 8 - Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1901 (+ 1910)
May 17 - Sebastian Kneipp[?], naturopathist[?] (+ 1897)
July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, composer
August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier (+ 1905)
October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician
October 30 - Fyodor Dostoevsky (+ 1881)

Deaths

January 4 - Elizabeth Ann Seton[?], American saint
February 23 - John Keats, British poet, dies in Rome
May 5 - Napoleon
May 19 - Camille Jordan, French politician

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