Page 2: 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 November - 21.   

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

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

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar on this day in history.   

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

1789  North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state on November - 21.   

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  On this day in history honolulu Harbor discovered   

1806  On this day in history decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England   

1811  On this day in history heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34   

1813  On November - 21 stettin surrenders to allied armies   

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

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

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

1818  On November - 21 russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine   

1824  Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC on this day in history.   

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

1828  William McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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  On November - 21 francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer   

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 November - 21.   

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

1567  On this day in history birth of anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)   

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

1645  On November - 21 birth of johann Lohner, composer   

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

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on this day in history.   

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

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  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