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 November - 21.   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to bar   

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

1789  On November - 21 north Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state   

1791  On this day in history 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  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 November - 21.   

1813  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on this day in history.   

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  Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen on November - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

1824  1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC on this day in history.   

1828  On this day in history william McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918   

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

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

1834  On November - 21 hMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile   

1834  Henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street) on this day in history.   

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

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

1847  On this day in history steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200   

1848  On this day in history cincinatti Turngemeinde founded   

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

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

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

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

1852  On November - 21 francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer   

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

1567  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on this day in history.   

1637  Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child) was born on this day in history.   

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

1683  On November - 21 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 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  Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61 on November - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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