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 November - 21.   

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

1785  William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion) on November - 21.   

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 November - 21.   

1789  On November - 21 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 November - 21.   

1806  Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England on November - 21.   

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

1813  On this day in history stettin surrenders to allied armies   

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 November - 21.   

1824  Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC on November - 21.   

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

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 November - 21.   

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

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 November - 21.   

1847  On November - 21 steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200   

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on this day in history.   

1848  On November - 21 alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris   

1849  Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna on November - 21.   

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

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

1852  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer on November - 21.   

1853  On this day in history hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)   

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1495  On this day in history 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 November - 21.   

1645  On November - 21 birth of johann Lohner, composer   

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

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on November - 21.   

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 this day in history.   

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 November - 21.   

1566  On November - 21 death of annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)   

1579  Death of Thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier on this day in history.   

1580  On November - 21 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