Events in year of 1821
- 01-21Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die
- 01-28Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica
- 02-12Mercantile Library of City of New York opens
- 02-22Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
- 02-23College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US pharmacy college
- 02-24Mexico gains independence from Spain
- 03-05Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
- 03-14African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
- 03-25Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
- 05-30James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
- 05-31Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore
- 06-21African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
- 06-23Dutch troops conquer Palembang
- 07-17Spain cedes Florida to US
- 07-28Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
- 08-041st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)
- 08-061st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels
- 08-10Missouri admitted as 24th US state
- 08-19Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
- 08-23Mexico declares independence
- 09-011st colonies along Santa Fe Trail
- 09-15Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua gain independ
- 09-27Mexican Empire declares its independence
- 09-27Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw
- 11-091st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
- 11-28Panama declares independence from Spain
- 12-01Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
- 12-17Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
- 12-28Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
People born in year of 1821
- 01-04John James Peck: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
- 01-07Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
- 01-08James Longstreet: Confederate General (1st Corps, ANV)
- 01-12Nikolai Afanisev: Composer
- 01-15Lafayette McLaws: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
- 01-21John Cabell Breckinridge: (D) 14th US VP (1857-61) / Major General (Confed)
- 01-29Isaac Ferdinand Quinby: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
- 02-01Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg: Composer
- 02-03Elizabeth Blackwell: Bristol, England -- 1st woman Physician
- 02-10William Read Scurry: (Confederate Army Brigadier General) Died in 1864.
- 02-11Hermann Allmers: Writer
- 02-15Abraham de Amorie van der de Have: Theologist / poet
- 02-16Heinrich Barth: Hamburg, Germany -- Geographer / explorer (Central Africa)
- 02-19Francis Preston Blair, Jr.: Lexington, Kentucky -- (Rep-Missouri)
- 02-21Charles Scribner: United States -- Music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
- 03-12Luitpold von Bayern: Prince-regent of Bayern
- 03-14Jens Worsaae: Denmark -- Archaeologist
- 03-16Ernest Feydeau: French author (Georges Feydeau)
- 03-19Francis Barretto Spinola: Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
- 03-19William Allingham: Irish poet (Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
- 03-23Aleksej F Pisemski: Russian writer (Clodhopper)
- 03-24[George] Hector Tyndale: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 03-26Earnest Angel: German statistician (Law of Angel)
- 03-29Joshua Thomas Owen: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
- 04-04Linus Yale: United States -- Portrait painter / inventor (Yale cylinder lock)
- 04-09Charles-Pierre Baudelaire: France -- Symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)
- 04-15Emerson Brown Joseph: (Confederacy), died in 1894
- 04-16Ford Maddox Brown: Painter
- 04-19Mortimer Dormer Leggett: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
- 04-23Pierre Dupont: Song writer
People died in year of 1821
- 01-04Elizabeth Ann Seton: 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland
- 01-25Johan Valckenier: Dutch politician / patriot, dies at 62
- 02-08Paul Anton Wineberger: Composer, dies at 62
- 02-23John Keats: Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome
- 02-23Marie-Anne Collot: French sculptor
- 03-23Bernhard Anselm Weber: Pianist / conductor / composer, dies at 56
- 04-09Felix Maximo Lopez: Composer, dies at 78
- 04-20Franz K Achard: German physicist / chemist, dies at 67
- 04-22John Crome [Old Crome]: English landscape Painter / etcher, dies at 52
- 05-05Napoleon I Bonaparte: Emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena
- 05-15John Wall Calcott: Composer, dies at 54
- 06-18Charles Hague: Composer, dies at 52
- 07-09Tommaso Sogner: Composer, dies at 58
- 07-21Maurice J M Prince de Broglie: Bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55
- 08-01Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson): Actress / Author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68
- 08-04William Floyd: US soldier / signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
- 08-06Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni: Composer, dies at 64
- 08-10Salvatore Vigano: Composer, dies at 52
- 08-29Horace Coignet: Composer, dies at 86
- 09-27Luis (Philippus) Brion: Curacaos Admiral / Supreme Commander, dies at 39
- 10-09Georg-Friederich Fuchs: Composer, dies at 68
- 11-10Andreas J Romberg: German violinist / Composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
- 11-26Friedrich Heine: Composer, dies at 57
- 12-20Gian Francesco Fortunati: Composer, dies at 75
- 12-29Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael: S Netherlands General, dies at 61
- 12-30Angelo Maria Benincori: Composer, dies at 42
Events in year of 1822
- 01-05Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
- 01-071st printing in Hawaii
- 01-07Liberia colonized by Americans
- 02-04Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
- 02-09American Indian Society organizes
- 02-23Boston is incorporated as a city
- 03-09Charles Graham of New York patents artificial teeth
- 03-16Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
- 03-19Boston, Mass incorporated as a city
- 03-22Gioacchino Rossini marries Isabella Colbran in Bologna
- 03-22New York Horticultural Society founded
- 03-30Congress combined East and West Florida into Florida Territory
- 05-01John Phillips becomes 1st Mayor of Boston
- 05-03Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
- 05-30House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
- 06-09Charles Graham patents false teeth
- 06-16Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
- 06-18Part of US-Canadian boundary determined
- 06-18Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
- 07-14Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey / Peter Poyas
- 07-26Secret meeting of Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
- 07-30James Varick becomes 1st Bishop of African Meth Episcopal Zion Church
- 08-10Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
- 09-07Brazil declares independence from Portugal (National Day)
- 09-07Pedro I, Son of King Joao VI, declares Brazil independence
- 10-081st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley
- 10-122nd eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain
- 10-201st edition of London Sunday Times
- 10-26King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
- 12-01Dom Pedro crowned Emperor of Brazil
People born in year of 1822
- 01-02Rudolph J E Clausius: Germany -- Physicist (thermodynamics)
- 01-04Joseph Jones Reynolds: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
- 01-05Joseph Brevard Kershaw: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
- 01-06Heinrich Schliemann: German polyglot / archeologist (Troje)
- 01-07Lucius C M Bakker: Frisian Physician / author (Goethe)
- 01-08Alfredo Carlo Piatti: Composer
- 01-09John Porter Hatch: Volunteers Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1901
- 01-14Nicholas Mori: Composer
- 01-27Thomas Leiper Kane: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
- 01-28Alexander MacKenzie: (L) 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (1873-78)
- 01-30John Basil Turchin [Ivan Turchinoff]: Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
- 02-07Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide: Composer
- 02-08Maxime Du Camp: France -- Writer / traveler (Les Buveurs de Cendres)
- 02-09Charles T Stork: Dutch industrialist
- 02-13Lev A Mej: Russian nobleman / poet
- 02-15Theodor Uhlig: Composer
- 02-16Francis Galton: Birmingham, England -- Anthropologist and geneticist
- 02-16James Patton Anderson: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
- 02-22Adolf Kuszmaul: German Physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
- 02-27Eugene Gautier: Composer
- 02-28Matthew Duncan Ector: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
- 03-01Albin Francisco Schoepf: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
- 03-01Charles Champion Gilbert: Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
- 03-07Victor Masse: Composer
- 03-10Willem Roelofs: Dutch painter / lithographer
- 03-11Allison Nelson: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
- 03-13Moritz Grave von Strachwitz: German poet
- 03-16John Pope: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
- 03-16Rosa Bonheur: French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)
- 03-22Ahmed Djevdet Pasha: Turkish Minister of Education / Justice
People died in year of 1822
- 01-14Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell: German landscape painter, dies at 72
- 02-02Jean-Baptiste Davaux: Composer, dies at 79
- 02-05Ali Pasha of Janina: (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about 77
- 02-10Albert-Kasimir: Duke of Saxon-Teschen / Governor of Hungary, dies at 83
- 02-19Jeronymo Francisco de Lima: Composer, dies at 78
- 02-22Johann Ignaz Walter: Composer, dies at 66
- 03-02Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber: Composer, dies at 40
- 03-03Franz Adam Veichtner: Composer, dies at 81
- 04-03Friedrich Bertuch: Writer
- 04-06Franz Xaver Partsch: Composer, dies at 62
- 04-13Gaetano Valeri: Composer, dies at 61
- 04-25Frederick "William" Herschel: German / British astronomer, dies at 83
- 05-09Charles Duquesnoy: Composer, dies at 62
- 05-15Christian Ludwig Dieter: Composer, dies at 64
- 06-19John Bray: Composer, dies on 40th birthday
- 06-25Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann: German writer / judge / composer, dies at 46
- 07-08Percy Bysshe Shelley: English Poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns at 29
- 07-27Joseph Supries: Composer, dies at 60
- 08-12Robert Stewart: 2nd Marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide
- 08-19Melchor Lopez Jimenez: Composer, dies at 62
- 08-25F William Herschel: German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
- 10-13Antonio Canova: Italian sculptor, dies at 64
- 10-27Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke: Composer, dies at 55
- 10-29Dirk van Hogendorp: Dutch Earl / General / Minister of War, dies at 61
- 11-06Hendrik van Stralen: Secretary of Interior, dies at 71
- 11-18Anton Teyber: Composer, dies at 66
- 11-18George Knowil Jackson: Composer, dies at 65
- 11-24Karl Jacob Wagner: Composer, dies at 50
- 11-26Johann Baptist Henneberg: Composer, dies at 53
- 12-15Ferenc Verseghy: Composer, dies at 65
Events in year of 1823
- 01-27President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
- 03-111st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont
- 04-22Baltic Club (Exchange) forms in London
- 04-22R J Tyers patents roller skates
- 05-08"Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
- 05-101st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft Snelling
- 06-16King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
- 07-019th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
- 07-01United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
- 07-14Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
- 09-10Simon Bolivar named President of Peru
- 09-21Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith
- 10-05Weber visits Beethoven
- 10-12Charles Macintosh of Scotland begins selling raincoats (Macs)
- 11-12Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
- 12-02President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
- 12-13Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
- 12-19Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
- 12-20Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde, " premieres in Vienna
- 12-23"Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
People born in year of 1823
- 01-03Jaak-Nikolaas Lemmens: Flemish composer
- 01-04Otto van Rees: Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)
- 01-04Peter Joseph Osterhaus: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
- 01-05William Rockstro: Composer
- 01-08Alfred Russel Wallace: British zoologist / co-discoverer (evolution)
- 01-21Alexandre Edouard Goria: Composer
- 01-27Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo: France -- Composer (Symphonie Espagnole)
- 01-29Franklin Gardner: Major General (Confederate Army)
- 02-07Richard Genee: Composer
- 02-15Li Hung-Tshang: Chinese rebel leader / Viceroy of Tsheli Canton
- 02-16John Daniel Imboden: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
- 02-27Ferdinand Van Derveer: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
- 02-27William Buel Franklin: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
- 02-28Ernest Renan: French philosopher / historian / Scholar of religion
- 03-12William Flank Perry: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
- 03-14Roswell Sabine Ripley: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
- 03-16William Henry Monk: Composer
- 03-19Cornelis A van Sypesteyn: Dutch Governor of Surinam (1873-82)
- 03-20John Echols: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
- 03-23Schuyler Colfax: (R) 17th VP (1869-73)
- 03-25William Thompson Martin: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
- 03-27Samuel Kosciusko Zook: Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
- 03-30Joseph Farmer Knipe: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1901
- 04-01Simon Bolivar Buckner: Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1914
- 04-03William Macy "Boss" Tweed: Corrupt political boss (NYC)
- 04-04Karl Wilhelm Siemens: Inventor (laid undersea cables)
- 04-04Robert Byington Mitchell: Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
- 04-06Joseph Medill: St. John, New Brunswick -- Newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)
- 04-10Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
- 04-12Aleksandr Ostrovsky: Russian playwright (Artists & Admirers)
People died in year of 1823
- 01-17Zacharius Werner: German playwright, dies at 36
- 02-07Ann Radcliffe (Ward): English Poet / Author of horror novels, dies at 58
- 02-16Johann Gottfried Schict: Composer, dies at 69
- 02-26John P Kemble: English actor / director (Covent Garden), dies at 66
- 03-18Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval: Composer, dies at 69
- 03-24Cornelis van Foreest: Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66
- 03-25Coelestin Jungbauer: Composer, dies at 75
- 05-15Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky: Composer, dies at 69
- 06-01Louis Nicholas Davout: French Field Marshal, dies at 53
- 08-03Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist: Dutch politician / colonial dir, dies at 74
- 08-20Pius VII [Luigi B Chiaramonti]: Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
- 09-17Abraham L Breguet: French clock maker, dies at 76
- 09-20Daniel Steibelt: Composer, dies at 57
- 10-26Josef Preindl: Composer, dies at 67
- 11-12Emmanuel Aloys Forster: Composer, dies at 75
- 12-03Joseph Pouteau: Composer, dies at 84
- 12-07Johann Gottlieb Schwencke: Composer, dies at 79
- 12-14Vincenzo Cuoco: Italian Historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53
- 12-19Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel: Composer, dies at 67
- 12-24Philipp Christoph Kayser: Composer, dies at 68