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 November - 21.  

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  Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar on November - 21.  

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar on November - 21.  

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 November - 21.  

1794  On November - 21 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  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on November - 21.  

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

1834  Henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street) on November - 21.  

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  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  On this day in history desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal  

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

1852  On this day in history 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  On November - 21 birth of anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)  

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

1645  On this day in history birth of johann Lohner, composer  

1683  Johann Michael Muller, composer was born on November - 21.  

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  Death of Pope Gelasius I on November - 21.  

1361  On this day in history death of philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)  

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

1579  On November - 21 death of thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier  

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