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 this day in history.   

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

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

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  North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state on this day in history.   

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 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  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on November - 21.   

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

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

1824  On November - 21 jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC   

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

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

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

1831  John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on November - 21.   

1834  On this day in history hMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile   

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

1837  On November - 21 thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times   

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

1852  On November - 21 duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College   

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  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 this day in history.   

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

1637  On this day in history birth of catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)   

1645  Johann Lohner, composer was born on November - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

0496  On this day in history 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  Death of Annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507) on this day in history.   

1579  Death of Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier on November - 21.   

1580  Death of Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed on November - 21.   

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