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next turn year 1821

events

January–March[edit]

June 24: Battle of Carabobo January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic is first sighted, by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. January 28 – Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. February 9 – Columbian College of the District of Columbia is chartered by President Monroe. March 4 – James Monroe begins his second term as President of the United States. March 5 – President James Monroe is sworn in for his second term. April–June[edit] March 25 (O.S.)/April 6 (N.S.) – Metropolitan bishop Germanos of Patras raises the revolutionary flag of Greece at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, symbolically marking the beginning of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire; later celebrated as Greece's traditional Independence Day. April 10 (O.S.)/April 22 (N.S.) – Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is blamed by the Ottoman government for being unable to suppress Greek independence, and is hanged outside the main gate of the Patriarchal Cathedral immediately after the celebration of Pascha. May 5 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on Saint Helena of stomach cancer. May 5 – The first edition of the Manchester Guardian (from 1959 simply the Guardian) is published.[1] May 26 (O.S.)/June 7 (N.S.) – The Peloponnesian Senate is established by the Greek rebels. June 14 – King Badi VII of Sennar surrenders his throne and realm to Ismail Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom. June 7 (O.S.)/June 19 (N.S.) – Battle of Drăgășani, Wallachia: The Filiki Eteria are decisively defeated by the Ottomans. June 24 – Battle of Carabobo: Simón Bolívar wins Venezuela's independence from Spain.