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Key Events in the History of Nova Scotia: 1821.
- January: Ninety "Chesapeake Blacks" took up an offer of the government to transport them to Trinidad.
- January 20th: "The harbour of Halifax frozen over almost to the light house, the ice of sufficient solidity to bear sleighs, skaters, &c. and continued so for several days." The navigation was completely stopped for several weeks.
- March 26th: Kempt reports to London that "a weekly post had been established between Halifax and Sydney."
- During the April term, the Supreme Court at Halifax sentenced a person who had been convicted of forgery, "pillory, one hour -- to have one of his ears cut off, and suffer imprisonment for the space of one year."
- May: The death of Napoleon.
- Passenger service was established using a steamer between Dover and Calais, which, in favourable weather, reduced the travelling time across the channel to three or four hours.
- May 28: A census is carried out in Great Britain.
- The North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company unite as one.
- Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
- "The live stock imported from the United States at the port of Halifax in the year 1821, were 33 oxen, 7 young cattle, 34 pigs, 594 sheep, and 33 horses."
- Between years 1808 & 1827: The number of horses in the province went from 6,700 to 13,000; cattle, 57,000 to 110,000; sheep, 75,000 to 174,000; swine, 28,000 to 72,000.
- The coronation of George IV takes place on July 19th.
- September 22nd, major fire burns houses on Sackville Street, Halifax.
- October; 179 ex-soldiers, some of who likely had occupied the lands for a few years prior to this date, were given a grant of 26,760 acres at Dalhousie in present day Annapolis County.
- Property qualification for voting abolished in New York State. (Similar developments in other states.)
- Halifax: An act in relation to Cordwood. There were a number of legislative acts re Cordwood, through the years 1820s and 1830s.
- "The trial of the Queen, -- the coronation -- the death of queen Caroline -- the second expedition of Parry to the Polar discoveries, and the insurrections in Greece, cover the columns of our periodicals in 1821 ..."
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[Forward In Time (1822)]- January: Ninety "Chesapeake Blacks" took up an offer of the government to transport them to Trinidad.
