On October 21, history records 48 notable events, 214 famous births and 95 deaths, spanning the years 1096 to 1797.
Events on this day include: People's Crusade: A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fight off the People's Army of the West. (1096); First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch. (1097).
Notable people born on October 21 include Hongwu Emperor (1328), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (1527).
Notable figures who died on this day include Zhenzhu Khan (645), Gero (archbishop of Magdeburg) (1023), Walter Sans Avoir (1096).
Events on 21 October 48
See all →People's Crusade: A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fight off the People's Army of the West.
First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
Nanboku-chō, Japan: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate.
First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
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Birthdays on 21 October 214
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