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

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

1785  William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion) on November - 21.   

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

1787  On this day in history andrew Jackson admitted to bar   

1787  On November - 21 samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)   

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 this day in history.   

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered on November - 21.   

1806  Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England on November - 21.   

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

1813  On this day in history stettin surrenders to allied armies   

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

1817  Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on November - 21.   

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 November - 21.   

1824  Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC on November - 21.   

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  Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet on November - 21.   

1831  John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on this day in history.   

1834  HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile on this day in history.   

1834  On this day in history henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)   

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

1840  On this day in history victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

1847  Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 on this day in history.   

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on November - 21.   

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

1849  On this day in history friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna   

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

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 November - 21.   

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1495  On November - 21 birth of john Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)   

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

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

1637  Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child) was born on November - 21.   

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

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

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on November - 21.   

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  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 this day in history.   

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

1566  On November - 21 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 this day in history.