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

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

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

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar on November - 21.   

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar on November - 21.   

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

1789  On this day in history north Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state   

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

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

1813  On this day in history stettin surrenders to allied armies   

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

1817  On this day in history richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863   

1817  On this day in history richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen   

1818  Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine on November - 21.   

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

1824  1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC on November - 21.   

1828  On this day in history william McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918   

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  HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile on this day in history.   

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

1837  On this day in history thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times   

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

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

1848  On November - 21 cincinatti Turngemeinde founded   

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

1852  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer on this day in history.   

1853  On this day in history hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)   

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

1561  Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author was born on November - 21.   

1567  On November - 21 birth of anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)   

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

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

1683  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

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 November - 21.   

0496  On this day in history death of pope Gelasius I   

1361  Death of Philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346) on November - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1579  On this day in history death of thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier   

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

1610  On this day in history benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies