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 November - 21.  

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  Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar on this day in history.  

1787  On this day in history andrew Jackson admitted to bar  

1787  On this day in history 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  On this day in history honolulu Harbor discovered  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1824  On November - 21 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 this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on November - 21.  

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

1849  Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna on November - 21.  

1851  Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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

1561  On November - 21 birth of carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author  

1567  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on November - 21.  

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

1645  On November - 21 birth of johann Lohner, composer  

1683  Johann Michael Muller, composer was born on this day in history.  

1692  On this day in history 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  Death of Pope Gelasius I on this day in history.  

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

1610  On November - 21 benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies