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| 1821 |
| | | The 22-year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of Brazil | |
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| 1821 |
| | | An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company | |
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| 1821 |
| | | Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper | |
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| 1821 |
| | | French physicist Augustin Jean Fresnel publishes the theory that light is a transverse wave, thus explaining polarization effects | |
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