* 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter ( d. 1893 )

* 1769 – Napoleon, Corsican-French military officer and political leader ( d. 1821 )

* 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances.

* 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint ( d. 1821 )

* 1821 – Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi ( d. 1849 )

Anne's mother, Maria Branwell ( 1783 – 1821 ), was the daughter of Thomas Branwell, a successful, property-owning grocer and tea merchant in Penzance and Anne Carne, the daughter of a silversmith.

* 1821 – Missouri is admitted as the 24th U. S. state.

* 1821 – Jay Cooke, American financier, founded Jay Cooke & Company ( d. 1905 )

* 1821 – Atkinson & Alexander publish The Saturday Evening Post for the first time as a weekly newspaper.

* 1821 – Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton ( d. 1892 )

* 1821 – James Springer White, American theologian ( d. 1881 )

* 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

Men Playing Board Games – from The Sougandhika Parinaya Manuscript ( 1821 CE )

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* Christian ( French actor ) ( 1821 – 1889 ), stage name of Christian Perrin, a 19th-century French actor and singer

* The Consulate of Argos ( from 26 May 1821, under the Senate of the Peloponnese ) had a single head of state, styled consul, 28 March 1821 – 26 May 1821: Stamatellos Antonopoulos

* The Consulate of East Greece ( Livadeia ) ( from 15 November 1821, under the Areopagus of East Greece ) was headed 1 April 1821 – 15 November 1821 by three Consuls: Lambros Nakos, Ioannis Logothetis & Ioannis Filon

* Frederick William Cumberland ( 1821 – 1881 ), engineer and politician

** Edward Levett Darwin ( 1821 – 1901 ), solicitor and author

In 1821, the settlers moved and renamed the settlement Columbia — a poetic name for the United States.

Superpowers, such as the European great powers, had always felt no compunction in intervening in civil wars that affected their interests, while distant regional powers such as the United States could declare the interventionist Monroe Doctrine of 1821 for events in its Central American " backyard ".

Guatemala City was the scene of the declaration of independence of Central America from Spain, and became the capital of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821.

Guatemala gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821 ; it briefly became part of the Mexican Empire and then for a period belonged to a federation called The United Provinces of Central America, until the federation broke up in civil war in 1838 – 1840 ( See: History of Central America ).

Elizabeth Blackwell ( 1821 – 1910 ) became the first woman to formally study, and subsequently practice, medicine in the United States.

Booth's parents, the noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth and his mistress Mary Ann Holmes, came to the United States from England in June 1821.

* 1821 – James Longstreet, American Confederate general and diplomat ; and former United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1904 )

* 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general ( d. 1875 )

No further known settlements by non-African colonists occurred along the Grain Coast ( an alternative name ) until the arrival in 1821 of free blacks from the United States.

The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, occasionally sending naval vessels to help the Americo-Liberian ( freed slave ) ruling minority put down insurrections by indigenous tribes ( in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915 ).

The demographics of Liberia Liberia's history as a place set up in 1821 as a colony for free slaves from the United States.

Nicaragua became a part of the Mexican Empire and then gained its independence as a part of the United Provinces of Central America in 1821, then as an independent republic in its own right in 1838.

* May 17 – John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the United States ( b. 1821 )

The Adams – Onís Treaty, signed in 1819 and ratified by Spain in 1821, ceded Florida to the United States, and established a boundary between New Spain and the United States.

* June 27, 1821 – The New Hampton School is founded in the United States state of New Hampshire.

* May 17 – Caroline of Brunswick, queen of George IV of the United Kingdom ( d. 1821 )

However, only in 1821, following the introduction of the gold sovereign coin by the new Royal Mint at Tower Hill in the year 1816, was the United Kingdom formally put on a gold specie standard, the first of the great industrial powers to do so.

With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the United Kingdom began a massive recoinage programme that created standard gold sovereigns and circulating crowns and half-crowns, and eventually copper farthings in 1821.

The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, the English High School founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1821.

Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ( Caroline Amelia Elizabeth ; later Queen Caroline ; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821 ) was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death.

* Columbia District, the trading district of the Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company from 1821 to the Oregon Treaty of 1846, by which most of the Columbia District was formally annexed to the United States.

" Lafitte remained in Galveston until 1821 when he and his raiders were forced off the island by the United States Navy.

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