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 this day in history.   

1783  On November - 21 pilstre de Rozier &Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight   

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 this day in history andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to bar   

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  On November - 21 colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.   

1794  Honolulu Harbor discovered on November - 21.   

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

1811  Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1813  Stettin surrenders to allied armies on this day in history.   

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

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

1817  Richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen on November - 21.   

1818  On November - 21 russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine   

1824  On November - 21 jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC   

1824  1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC on November - 21.   

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

1829  Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet on this day in history.   

1831  On this day in history john Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886   

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 November - 21.   

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

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 this day in history friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna   

1851  On November - 21 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  Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer on November - 21.   

1853  Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17) on this day in history.   

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1495  John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) was born on November - 21.   

1561  Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author was born on this day in history.   

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  Johann Lohner, composer was born on November - 21.   

1683  On this day in history birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on this day in history.   

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 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  On November - 21 georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61   

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 this day in history death of willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed   

1610  On November - 21 benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies