Years: 1818 1819 1820 - 1821 - 1822 1823 1824

Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1821 in art 1821 in literature 1821 in rail transport 1821 in science 1821 in music 1821 in sports List of state leaders in 1821 List of religious leaders in 1821

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.
• July 10 - The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
• July 28 - Peru declares independence from Spain.
• August 4 - Atkinson & Alexander publish the Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
• September 15 - Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica gain independence from Spain.
• September 27 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
• August 10 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
• 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).
• 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

• January 8 - James Longstreet, Confederate General († 1904)
• February 3 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States († 1910)
• February 11 - Hermann Allmers, writer († 1902)
• February 11 - Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist who dug out the Sphinx († 1881)
• February 17 - Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, better known as Lola Montez († 1861)
• February 19 - August Schleicher, German linguist († 1868)
• March 1 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop († 1896)
• 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 8 – William Henry Vanderbilt, entrepreneur († 1885)
• May 17 - Sebastian Kneipp, naturopathist († 1897)
• July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer († 1910)
• August 10 - Jay Cooke, financier († 1905)
• October 13 - Rudolf Virchow, German doctor, pathologist, biologist, and politician († 1902)
• October 21 - Thomas Lyon-Bowes, the Monster of Glamis and member of the British Royal Family is born and recorded as dead.
• November 11 - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer († 1881)
• Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, Canadian politician

Deaths

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

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