Page 2: Historical Events In November - 21

1783  On November - 21 a Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, 500ft above Paris   

1783  On this day in history pilstre de Rozier &Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight   

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

1785  On this day in history william Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  On this day in history andrew Jackson admitted to bar   

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  Honolulu Harbor discovered on November - 21.   

1806  On this day in history decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England   

1811  Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1813  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on November - 21.   

1813  On November - 21 william Russell, composer, dies at 36   

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 this day in history.   

1818  Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine on this day in history.   

1824  On November - 21 jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC   

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

1828  William McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918 on this day in history.   

1829  On November - 21 peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet   

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  On this day in history henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)   

1837  Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times on this day in history.   

1840  On November - 21 victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

1847  Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 on November - 21.   

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on November - 21.   

1848  On November - 21 alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris   

1849  Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna on November - 21.   

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

1852  Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College on November - 21.   

1852  On November - 21 francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer   

1853  Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17) on this day in history.   

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1495  John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) was born on November - 21.   

1561  On November - 21 birth of carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author   

1567  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on this day in history.   

1637  Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child) was born on this day in history.   

1645  Johann Lohner, composer was born on this day in history.   

1683  On November - 21 birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

1692  On November - 21 birth of carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet   

1694  On this day in history birth of voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)   

0496  Death of Pope Gelasius I on this day in history.   

1361  On November - 21 death of philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)   

1481  On November - 21 ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87   

1555  Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61 on November - 21.   

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

1579  Death of Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier on November - 21.   

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

1610  Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies on this day in history.