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).

[edit] Events of 1821

The oath in Agia Lavra, March 25, 1821

March 4 - James Monroe sworn in as President of the United States, for second term as president.
March 25 (Julian calendar)/April 6 (Gregorian calendar) - Greece declares its liberation from the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Greek War of Independence.
May 5 - Emperor Napoléon I dies in exile on Saint Helena of arsenic poisoning.
14 June - 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 Venezuela's independence.)
June 27 - The New Hampton School is founded in the US state of New Hampshire.

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

The coronation banquet for George IV

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.
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 12 - Sir John Abbott, Canadian politician (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 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 1 - Anatole Jean-Baptiste Antoine de Barthélemy, French archaeologist (d. 1904)
July 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
July 24 - William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (d. 1855)
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)

August 24 - John Polidori, physician and writer (b. 1795) (suicide)
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)
November 8 - Jean Rapp, French general (b. 1771)
December 7 - Pomare II, king of Tahiti (b. 1782)
December 12 - Phoebe Hessel, female soldier (b. 1713)