1821

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1818 1819 1820 - 1821 - 1822 1823 1824\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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\n1821 in sports\n----\nList of state leaders in 1821
\nList of religious leaders in 1821\n|}

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* February 23 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries founds the first pharmacy college. \n* March 25 - Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence. \n* July 10 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain. \n* July 28 - Peru declares independence from Spain. \n* August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper. \n* September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.\n* August 10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.\n* November 16 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and sells his merchandise for a huge profit (he immediately planned to return the following year over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail).\n*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.

Births

\n* January 8 - James Longstreet, Confederate General († 1904)\n* February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States († 1910)\n* February 11 - Hermann Allmers, writer († 1902)\n* February 11 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist who dug out the Sphinx († 1881)\n* February 17 - Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez († 1861)\n* February 19 - August Schleicher, German linguist († 1868)\n* April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French poet and writer († 1867)\n* May 8 - Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross and recipient of the Nobel Prize in peace 1901 († 1910)\n* May 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur († 1885)\n* May 17 - Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist († 1897)\n* July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer († 1910) \n* August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier († 1905)\n* October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician († 1902)\n* November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer († 1881)

Deaths

\n* January 4 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint (* 1774)\n* February 23 - John Keats, British poet, dies in Rome (* 1795)\n* March 13 - John Hunter - second governor of New South Wales (* 1737)\n* May 5 - Napoleon I of France (* 1769)\n* May 19 - Camille Jordan, French politician (* 1771)\n* September 10 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n