Page 2: Historical Events In November - 21

1783  On November - 21 a Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, 500ft above Paris   

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

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

1785  On this day in history william Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)   

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

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

1787  On November - 21 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 November - 21.   

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered on this day in history.   

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 November - 21.   

1813  On November - 21 stettin surrenders to allied armies   

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

1817  On November - 21 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  On this day in history jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC   

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

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  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on this day in history.   

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

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

1851  Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal on November - 21.   

1852  Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

1692  On November - 21 birth of carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet   

1694  On November - 21 birth of voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)   

0496  On this day in history death of pope Gelasius I   

1361  On November - 21 death of philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)   

1481  On this day in history 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  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  Benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies on November - 21.