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.   

1783  Pilstre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight   

1785  William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)   

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar.   

1787  Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line).   

1789  North Carolina ratifies constitution, is recorded as becoming 12th US state.   

1791  Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.   

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered   

1806  Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England.   

1811  Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34.   

1813  Stettin surrenders to allied armies.   

1813  William Russell, composer, dies at 36   

1817  Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863.   

1817  Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen.   

1818  Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine.   

1824  Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC.   

1824  1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC   

1828  William McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918.   

1829  Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet   

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

1834  HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile.   

1834  Henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street).   

1837  Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22806 times.   

1840  Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

1847  Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, results in the deaths of 200.   

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded   

1848  Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris.   

1849  Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna.   

1851  Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal.   

1852  Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College.   

1852  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer.   

1853  Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)   

1854  Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22).   

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1495  John bale: England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (kynge johan)   

1561  Carolus scribani: Italian/flemish jesuit/author   

1567  Anne de xainctonge: French saint   

1637  Catharina questiers: Dutch poetess (friend of abandoned child)   

1645  Johann lohner: Composer   

1683  Johann michael muller: Composer   

1692  Carlo fragoni: Italy, poet   

1694  Voltaire: [francois-marie arouet], france, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (candide) (. 1778)   

0496  Death of Pope gelasius i: Pope gelasius i   

1361  Death of Philip i: Duke of burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)   

1481  Death of Ikkyu sojun: Zen head of daitokuji temple,   

1555  Georg agricola: [bauer], german mineralogist (zinc),   

1566  Annibale caro: Italian poet (b. 1507)   

1579  Death of Thomas gresham: English merchant and financier   

1580  Death of Willem van hoorn: Baron of heze, governor of brussels, executed   

1610  Death of Benedict van canfield: [william fish], english missionary,