Historical Events In November - 21

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

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

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

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

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  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  On November - 21 honolulu Harbor discovered   

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  On November - 21 stettin surrenders to allied armies   

1813  William Russell, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

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

1824  On this day in history jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC   

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

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

1829  On this day in history peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet   

1831  On this day in history 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  Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times on November - 21.   

1840  Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia on this day in history.   

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

1848  On this day in history cincinatti Turngemeinde founded   

1848  On this day in history alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris   

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

1851  On this day in history desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal   

1852  On this day in history duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College   

1852  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer on November - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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 November - 21.   

1645  On November - 21 birth of johann Lohner, composer   

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  On November - 21 death of pope Gelasius I   

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

1481  On this day in history ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87   

1555  On November - 21 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 this day in history.   

1580  On November - 21 death of willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed   

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