Historical Events In November - 21

1783  A Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, 500ft above Paris on this day in history.   

1783  Pilstre de Rozier &Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight on November - 21.   

1783  On November - 21 pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight   

1785  William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion) on this day in history.   

1787  On this day in history andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar on this day in history.   

1787  On this day in history samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)   

1789  North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state on this day in history.   

1791  Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic on November - 21.   

1794  On this day in history honolulu Harbor discovered   

1806  Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England on this day in history.   

1811  Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 on November - 21.   

1813  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on this day in history.   

1813  William Russell, composer, dies at 36 on November - 21.   

1817  On November - 21 richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1817  Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen on November - 21.   

1818  On this day in history russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine   

1824  Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC on this day in history.   

1824  1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC on this day in history.   

1828  On November - 21 william McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918   

1829  Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet on this day in history.   

1831  John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on November - 21.   

1834  On this day in history hMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile   

1834  Henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street) on this day in history.   

1837  On November - 21 thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times   

1840  Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia on November - 21.   

1847  On November - 21 steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200   

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on this day in history.   

1848  Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris on November - 21.   

1849  Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna on this day in history.   

1851  Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal on this day in history.   

1852  On November - 21 duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College   

1852  On November - 21 francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer   

1853  Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17) on November - 21.   

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1495  John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) was born on this day in history.   

1561  On this day in history birth of carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author   

1567  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on November - 21.   

1637  On November - 21 birth of catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)   

1645  Johann Lohner, composer was born on November - 21.   

1683  Johann Michael Muller, composer was born on November - 21.   

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on this day in history.   

1694  On November - 21 birth of voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)   

0496  Death of Pope Gelasius I on November - 21.   

1361  On this day in history death of philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)   

1481  Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87 on this day in history.   

1555  On this day in history georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61   

1566  Death of Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507) on this day in history.   

1579  Death of Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier on this day in history.   

1580  Death of Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed on this day in history.   

1610  On November - 21 benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies