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Events in August 1821 2
1768 – 1821Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821)Died 7 August 1821, aged 53Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom, she became a popular figure after her estranged husband's failed attempt to divorce her through a parliamentary bill in 1820. She died just weeks after being barred from his coronation.
1821Missouri admitted as the 24th US stateCompletion of the Missouri CompromiseMissouri entered the Union as a slave state following the 1820 compromise that admitted Maine as a free state to preserve the balance in Congress. The admission intensified sectional debate over slavery's expansion.