Page 2: Historical Events In November - 21

1783  On this day in history 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 November - 21.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1789  North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state on November - 21.   

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

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered on this day in history.   

1806  Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England on this day in history.   

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

1813  On November - 21 stettin surrenders to allied armies   

1813  William Russell, composer, dies at 36 on November - 21.   

1817  Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on November - 21.   

1817  On this day in history richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen   

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

1828  On November - 21 william McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918   

1829  On November - 21 peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet   

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

1834  HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile on November - 21.   

1834  On November - 21 henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)   

1837  On this day in history thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times   

1840  Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia on November - 21.   

1847  Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 on this day in history.   

1848  On November - 21 cincinatti Turngemeinde founded   

1848  On this day in history alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris   

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

1851  On November - 21 desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal   

1852  On this day in history duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College   

1852  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer on this day in history.   

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

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1495  John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) was born on this day in history.   

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 November - 21.   

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

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

1692  On this day in history birth of carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet   

1694  Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778) was born on this day in history.   

0496  On November - 21 death of pope Gelasius I   

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

1481  Ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87 on November - 21.   

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  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