Page 2: 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  On November - 21 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  William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion) on this day in history.   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar on November - 21.   

1787  Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line) on this day in history.   

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

1791  On November - 21 colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.   

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered on November - 21.   

1806  Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England on this day in history.   

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 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 this day in history.   

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

1829  Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet on this day in history.   

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

1834  HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile on November - 21.   

1834  On November - 21 henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)   

1837  Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times on November - 21.   

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  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on November - 21.   

1848  Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris on November - 21.   

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

1851  On November - 21 desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal   

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

1852  On this day in history francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer   

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

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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 this day in history.   

1645  On November - 21 birth of johann Lohner, composer   

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 November - 21 death of pope Gelasius I   

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

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

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

1566  Death of Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507) on November - 21.   

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

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

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