Page 2: 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 this day in history.   

1783  Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight on this day in history.   

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

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

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to bar   

1787  Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line) on November - 21.   

1789  North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state on November - 21.   

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

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered on November - 21.   

1806  On November - 21 decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England   

1811  On November - 21 heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34   

1813  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on November - 21.   

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  On November - 21 richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen   

1818  On November - 21 russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine   

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

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

1831  On November - 21 john Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886   

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  On this day in history victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

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

1848  On this day in history cincinatti Turngemeinde founded   

1848  Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1849  On November - 21 friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna   

1851  Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal on November - 21.   

1852  Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College on this day in history.   

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 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  On this day in history birth of johann Lohner, composer   

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

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

1694  Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778) was born on this day in history.   

0496  On November - 21 death of pope Gelasius I   

1361  Death of Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346) on this day in history.   

1481  Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87 on November - 21.   

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

1566  On this day in history death of annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)   

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

1580  On this day in history death of willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed   

1610  Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies on November - 21.