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November 15 in history

243 sourced entries recorded on November 15, from 459 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 565Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire. He begins his reign by refusing subsidies to the Avars, who conduct several large-scale raids through the Balkan Peninsula.source
  • 578K'ak' Chan Yopaat, becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state of Copán in Honduras, and rules until his death 49 years later in 628.source
  • 655Battle of the Winwaed: King Oswiu of Bernicia defeats his rival, King Penda of Mercia at Cock Beck, near what later will be Leeds (Yorkshire). Kings Cadafael Cadomedd of Gwynedd and Œthelwald of Deira, allies of Mercia, withdraw their forces before the battle begins. It marks the defeat of the last credible pagan force in England. It also sows the seeds which will lead to Anglo-Saxon acceptance of the Catholic Church (approximate date).source
  • 1028Zoë Porphyrogenita takes the throne as empress consort. Her husband, Romanos III (age 60) becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.source
  • 1037Battle of Bar-le-Duc: Odo II, Count of Blois and Champagne, while invading the Duchy of Lorraine dies in battle with forces loyal to Gothelo I.source
  • 1202November 10–24 – Siege of Zara: The Crusaders under Boniface of Montferrat besiege and conquer Zara (modern-day Zadar) in Dalmatia. Despite letters from Innocent III forbidding such an action, and threatening excommunication. The leading citizens of Zara hang banners of crosses along the outer walls, professing their Catholic faith. Nevertheless, the Crusaders breach and sack the city, killing many.source
  • 1279The first of the Statutes of Mortmain are passed during the reign of King Edward I ("Longshanks"), which prevents land from passing into the possession of the Church.source
  • 1315Battle of Morgarten: The Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria on the shore of the Ägerisee, ensuring independence for the Swiss Confederation.source
  • 1316John of the House of Capet is born four months after the death of his father, King Louis X of France and, as the eldest (and only) son of King Louis, becomes King John I of France from the moment of his birth, with his uncle, Prince Philip the Tall, serving as regent. John dies, four days after his birth, on November 20.source
  • 1325War of the Bucket: At the Battle of Zappolino in northern Italy, the 7,000-man Ghibelline forces backed by the Holy Roman Empire defeat the much stronger (32,000-men) Guelph army under sent by Pope John XXII near Bologna. After the battle, Ghibelline influence in the region is consolidated.source
  • 1370Trần Nghệ Tông deposes Dương Nhật Lễ as emperor of Đại Việt, modern-day Vietnam.source
  • 1408The Antipope Benedict XIII convenes the Council of Perpignan.source
  • 1455The conflict between Vladislav II of Wallachia and John Hunyadi escalates, so the latter decides to support Vlad the Impaler for the throne of Wallachia, the following year.source
  • 1482King Edward IV of England summons the members of the English House of Commons and the English House of Lords to assemble at Westminster on January 20.source
  • 1491To end the siege of Rennes, the remaining portion of the Duchy of Brittany still under control of the Breton royal family, the Duchess Anne signs the Treaty of Rennes and agrees to marry King Charles VIII.source
  • 1505Portuguese explorer Lourenço de Almeida and his fleet encounter a storm and are driven to the island of Sri Lanka and travels to Colombo. The King of Kotte, Dharma Parakramabahu IX, allows Almeida to build a trade station and a Roman Catholic chapel.source
  • 1515Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Roman Catholic Cardinal.source
  • 1524The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed between representatives of Honoré I, Lord of Monaco and of King Charles of Spain, and places Monaco under the protection of Spain.source
  • 1527The lands of the Bishopric of Utrecht, now in the Netherlands, are ceded to control of the Habsburgs in return for assistance in suppressing a rebellion by the citizens of Utrecht.source
  • 1533Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cusco, Peru.source
  • 1545(10 Ramadan 952 AH) Hamida Banu Begum, Empress consort of India's Mughal Empire and wife of the Emperor Humayun, returns to the capital, Agra, after a three-year absence. She is accompanied by an army provided to Humayun by Tahmasp I, Shah of Iran.source
  • 1547A fleet of 60 Ottoman Navy ships, commanded by Piri Reis, arrives at the port of Aden (now in Yemen) and captures the city in slightly more than three months, by February 26, 1548.source
  • 1552Radu Ilie Haidăul becomes the new Prince of Wallachia in what is now Romania after defeating Prince Mircea the Shepherd at the battle of Mănești. Prince Mircea retakes the throne seven months later.source
  • 1566Mary, Queen of Scots visits Halidon Hill in England with John Forster, Marshal of Berwick.source
  • 1573Santa Fe, Argentina, is founded by Juan de Garay.source
  • 1588The English Navy ship Great Spaniard, formerly the Spanish Armada ship San Salvador until its capture on August 1, sinks off of the coast of England's Isle of Purbeck, with the loss of 23 of the 57 crew. The survivors are rescued by an English man-o-war boat.source
  • 1598Pope Clement VIII authorizes the marriage between Albert of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain. The two will be married on April 18.source
  • 1600Thessaly rebellion: Greek farmers in Thessaly, incited by Bishop Dionysios Skylosophos, begin an uprising against the Ottoman Empire, with violence in an area bounded by Trikala and Karditsa and the surrounding mountains, but the rebellion is suppressed by the Ottomans in a few days. "Dionysios the Philosopher, Metropolitan of Larissa", by Georgios Ploumidis, in Ta Nea (Athens), August 17, 2000, archived by Archive.orgsource
  • 1603Having recaptured Tabriz from the Ottoman Empire, Abbas the Great leads the Safavids in a siege of Yerevan.source
  • 1607Flight of the Earls: After the departure from Ireland of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, along with 90 of their followers, King James I of England, Scotland and Ireland issues a proclamation "that the flight of the Earles of Tyrone and Tyrconell, with some others of their fellowes out of the North parts of our Realme of Ireland; these men's corruption and falshood, whose hainous offences remaine so fresh in memorie since they declared themselves so very monsters in nature, as they did not only whithdraw themselues from their personall obedience to their Soveraigne, but were content to sell over their Native Countrey to those that stood at that time in the highest termes of hostilitie with the two Crownes of England and Ireland... we doe hereby professe in the worde of a King, that... notwithstanding all that they can claime, must be acknowledged to proceed from meere Grace upon their submission after their great and unnaturall Treasons", and must forfeit their rights and possessions as nobles.source
  • 1630Conclusion of the Treaty of Madrid, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1625–1630)source
  • 1631King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden takes possession of Prague, capital of Bohemia.source
  • 1635Thomas Parr, dead at the alleged age of 152, is buried in Westminster Abbey.source
  • 1642First English Civil War: Sir Edward Ford, High Sheriff of Sussex, captures Chichester from the Parliamentarians without resistance. The Parliamentarians send Sir William Waller to recapture the city.source
  • 1647Henry of Guise lands in Naples, to become the leader of the Neapolitan Republic.source
  • 1688November 15 (November 5 OS) – The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Torbay, England with a multinational force of 20,000 soldiers. He makes no claim to the British Crown, saying only that he has come to save Protestantism and to maintain English liberty, and begins a march on London.source
  • 1700Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (reigning for 44 years – with a short break – to 1746), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).source
  • 1700Louis XIV of France accepts the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou of the House of Bourbon, who becomes Philip V of Spain (in accordance with the will of Charles II of Spain), thus triggering the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714).source
  • 1702The opera La Clemenza d'Augusto by Johann Joseph Fux is premiered in Vienna.source
  • 1703War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Speyerbach (in modern-day Germany) – The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of Landau two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France.source
  • 1703Rákóczi's War of Independence: Battle of Zvolen (in modern-day Slovakia) – The Kurucs defeat the Austrians and their allies (Denmark, Hungary and the Serbs).source
  • 1705Battle of Zsibó: The Austrian-Danish forces defeat the Kurucs (Hungarians).source
  • 1706Five months after having been deposed from his position as the Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso disappears while in exile in Qinghai and is presumed to have been murdered.source
  • 1715The Third Barrier Treaty is signed by Britain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1715Third Barrier Treaty signed by Britain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1722November 15 (November 4 O.S.) – Russia's Emperor Peter the Great issues an order establishing the Caspian Flotilla during its war against Persia to gain complete control of the landlocked Caspian Sea.source
  • 1774The government of the Republic of Venice allows adventurer and ladies' man Giacomo Casanova to return home after a 17-year absence.source
  • 1777American Revolution: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation, in the temporary American capital at York, Pennsylvania.source
  • 1788Cyrus Griffin of Virginia completes his service as the last President of the Congress of the Confederation, under the Articles of Confederation.source
  • 179615 November-17 November - Battle of the Bridge of Arcole, French victory over Austria.source
  • 1806Pike Expedition: During his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (later named Pikes Peak in his honor).source
  • 1808Mahmud II (1808–1839) succeeds Mustafa IV (1807–1808), as sultan of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1812November 15–18 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Krasnoi: Napoleon's retreating army is again defeated in a series of skirmishes.source
  • 1823Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on October 16, 1875.source
  • 1825King Joao VI of Portugal promulgates a law recognizing his eldest son, Dom Pedro, as the Emperor of Brazil.source
  • 183215 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.source
  • 1835Weobley in Herefordshire is the site of the consecration of the first Roman Catholic chapel in England since the Reformation.source
  • 1837Isaac Pitman publishes Pitman Shorthand.source
  • 1853Maria II of Portugal is succeeded by her son Pedro V as King of Portugal.source
  • 1855The Hejaz rebellion takes place in Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire, triggered by a firman of 1854 against the slave trade, which is condemned by the ulema of Mecca as influenced by Westerners and contrary to Islamic law.source
  • 1859The first Zappas Olympics open in Greece.source
  • 1863King Christian IX of Denmark succeeds his distant cousin Frederick VII, giving rise to the beginning of the Second Schleswig-Holstein crisis.source
  • 1863With Christian IX's accent to the Danish throne, the House of Glücksburg succeeded the House of Oldenburg.source
  • 1867Ferrocarril Andino, the first state-owned railway in Argentina, is founded.source
  • 1872Maredsous Abbey foundedsource
  • 1873statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburghsource
  • 1884The Berlin Conference, which regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa, begins (ends February 26, 1885).source
  • 1884The Berlin Conference which regulates European colonisation and trade in Africa begins (ends 26 February 1885).source
  • 1885November 14–28 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Serbia declares war against Bulgaria, but is defeated in the Battle of Slivnitsa on November 17–19.source
  • 1886Robert Bosch GmbH is founded.source
  • 1886The Werkstätte für Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik (Workshop for Fine Mechanics and Electronics) is founded in Baden-Württemberg, Germany by Robert Bosch. The company will later become the home appliance and power tool brand, Robert Bosch GmbH.source
  • 1889Field Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca organizes a military coup which deposes Emperor Pedro II of Brazil and abolishes the Brazilian monarchy. Deodoro da Fonseca proclaims Brazil a republic, and forms a provisional government.source
  • 1893FC Basel Association football club is founded in Switzerland.source
  • 1899The American Line's SS St. Paul becomes the first ocean liner to report her imminent arrival by wireless telegraphy.source
  • 1901The Alpha Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.source
  • 1902King Leopold II of Belgium survives an attempted assassination in Brussels by Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino.source
  • 1902The Hanoi exhibition opens in French Indochina.source
  • 1902The Ofoten Line opened.source
  • 1904The Waikato Independent begins publishing in Cambridge. The newspaper became the Cambridge Independent in 1966. It closed in 1995.source
  • 1908King Leopold II of Belgium formally relinquishes his personal control of the Congo Free State (becoming Belgian Congo) to Belgium, following evidence collected by Roger Casement of maladministration.source
  • 1908The emergence of Umbanda through Zélio Fernandino de Moraes.source
  • 1914Mussolini founds the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia ("The People of Italy") advocating militarism and irredentism. The paper was subsidized by the French and industrialists on the pretext of influencing Italy to join the Entente Powers and became the foundation for the Fascist movement in Italy after World War I. Mussolini is expelled from the PSI on November 24.source
  • 1917(N.S.) (November 2, O.S.) – The Provincial Assembly of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia declares itself the highest legal body in Estonia, in opposition to Bolsheviks.source
  • 1918President-elect Rodrigues Alves, suffering from influenza, is unable to take office on the scheduled date, and is replaced by Vice President Delfim Moreira.source
  • 1920The first convention of the League of Nations takes place in Geneva with 41 member states in attendance.source
  • 1922In the 1922 United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. Labour for the first time becomes the main opposition party, winning more seats than the divided Liberals. A dining club of newly elected Conservative Members of Parliament evolves the following year into the 1922 Committee.source
  • 19221922 Guayaquil general strike: During a 3-day strike action in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fire into a crowd, killing at least 300.source
  • 1923Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic: Hyperinflation in Germany reaches its height. One United States dollar is worth 4,200,000,000,000 Papiermark (4.2 trillion on the short scale). Gustav Stresemann abolishes the old currency and replaces it with the Rentenmark, at an exchange rate of one Rentenmark to 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion on the short scale) Papiermark (effective November 20).source
  • 1926The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.source
  • 1926The NBC Radio Network opens in the United States with 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA).source
  • 1928November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness (published on 27 July by Jonathan Cape in London, England) is tried and convicted on the grounds of obscenity due to its theme of lesbian love, following a newspaper campaign.source
  • 1929Atlantic, a film drama about the sinking of the RMS Titanic, is released in the U.K. The simultaneously shot German-language version is the first sound film feature to be released in Germany.source
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1934Qantas de Havilland DH86 crashes after departing from Longreach Airport during its delivery flight.source
  • 1940Abbott and Costello make their film debut, in One Night in the Tropics.source
  • 1942The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends: Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses, it retains control of Guadalcanal.source
  • 1943Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Nazi concentration camps".source
  • 1943Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."source
  • 1945Harry S. Truman, Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King share nuclear information with the U.N. and call for a United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.source
  • 1946Linggadjati Agreementsource
  • 1947The Universal Postal Union (UPU) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations (effective July 1 1948).source
  • 1947The International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.source
  • 1948Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Canada's 12th prime minister.source
  • 1948The Ceylon Citizenship Act becomes law, qualifying only about 5,000 Indian Tamils for citizenship. More than 700,000 people, about 11% of the population, are denied citizenship and rendered stateless.source
  • 1948Israel's fledgling national airline is incorporated as El Al.source
  • 1955The Democratic Party of Japan and Japan Liberal Party merge to form the Japan Liberal Democratic Party, beginning the "1955 System".source
  • 1956Middle East Technical University is founded in Ankara, Turkey.source
  • 1957Yugoslavia announces the end of an economic boycott of Francoist Spain (although it does not reinstitute diplomatic relations).source
  • 1957A first section Nagoya to Sakae of Nagoya Municipal Subway Higashiyama Line operation started in Aichi Prefecture.source
  • 19571957 Aquila Airways Solent crash: A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight leaves 45 dead.source
  • 1957Moshe Ichilov (born 1903), Zionist activist, served as deputy mayor of Petah Tikva and of Tel Aviv.source
  • 1959The brutal Clutter family murders are committed in Holcomb, Kansas, inspiring Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1966).source
  • 1965U.S. racer Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record of 600.601 mph.source
  • 1966Two young couples in Point Pleasant, West Virginia reportedly see a strange moth-like creature better known as the Mothman.source
  • 1966Gemini 12 (James A. Lovell, Buzz Aldrin) splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean, 600 km east of the Bahamas.source
  • 1967The Cyprus crisis of 1967 broke out.source
  • 1968Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. By the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations.source
  • 1969Dave Thomas opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy's after his 8-year-old daughter Melinda Lou (nicknamed Wendy by her siblings).source
  • 1969Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.source
  • 1971Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.source
  • 1973November 14–17: Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military junta governing the country. The uprising ended in a bloodshed after the intervention of the military.source
  • 1975The "Group of 6" industrialized nations (G-6) is formed and holds its 1st summit at the Château de Rambouillet in France.source
  • 1976The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi.source
  • 1977A typhoon kills about 80 persons in northern Philippines. Among the dead are at least 40 killed after a fire at the tourist hotel in Manila a day earlier, caused by a candle being lit during a power failure.source
  • 1978Abortion is legalised.source
  • 1979British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as the "fourth man" of the 'Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; she gives further details on November 21.source
  • 1982The State Funeral of Leonid Brezhnev was held and he was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.source
  • 1983The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.source
  • 1984According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a Mishima complex building caught fire in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture in Shikoku Island, eight persons were human fatalities.source
  • 1984Silent Valley declared as a National Park.source
  • 1987In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu.source
  • 19871987 North Korean local electionssource
  • 1987Juanito Rivera, CPP's second highest ranking official, is arrested in Capas, Tarlac. –"In the Manila Times" The Manila Times (via Pressreader).source
  • 1988Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253–46.source
  • 1988The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.source
  • 1988In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).source
  • 1990President Bush signed new Clean Air Act, focused on urban pollution and cancer-causing emissions from industrial sources.source
  • 1990STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S. military mission.source
  • 1992A dentist named Ricardo Barreda murders his wife, two daughters, and mother-in-law.source
  • 19941994 Nepalese general election The CPN (UML) is elected with a minority government, becoming the first democratically elected Communist party in Asia.source
  • 19941994 Mindoro earthquake A 7.1 earthquake hits the central Philippine island of Mindoro, killing 78 people, injuring 430 and triggering a tsunami up to 8.5 m high.source
  • 1998The country's presidential elections are won in a landslide by Blaise Compaoré.source
  • 2000Bihar is divided into two parts (by the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000) and Jharkhand, the 28th state of India, is created. Hence, this day is celebrated as Jharkhand Foundation Day.source
  • 2001Microsoft enters the gaming console market with the release of the Xbox, a sixth-generation gaming console, in the United States.source
  • 2001Animal smuggling is reported to have cost the country 100 million dollars every year.source
  • 2002Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.source
  • 2003Suicide bombings occur in Istanbul. Further attacks occur five days later. They kill 63 people between them, making them the two deadliest terror attacks in Turkey, and cause uncertainty in the international economy.source
  • 2004A ceasefire is reached between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army.source
  • 2004The SMART-1 satellite reaches the orbit of the Moon.source
  • 2004November 14–26 – Typhoon Muifa kills 600 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2007United Nations human rights envoy Paulo Sergio Pinheiro visits political prisoners, including Su Su Nway, in Burma's Insein Prison.source
  • 2012After the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping succeeds Hu Jintao as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and becomes the top leader of China.source
  • 2012November 14–21 – Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip, killing Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari. In the following week 140 Palestinians and five Israelis are killed in an ensuing cycle of violence. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is announced by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after the week-long escalation in hostilities in Southern Israel and the Gaza Strip.source
  • 2013Start of the 2013–14 BAI Basket seasonsource
  • 2013Costa Rican scientist-engineer Sandra Cauffman (née Sandra María del Socorro Molina Rojas) participated in the American space agency NASA's first press conference in the Spanish language. The event was broadcast live on NASA TV and discussed the agency's mission to Mars called MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN), of which Cauffman is the Deputy Project Manager.source
  • 2014The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was held at the Malta Shipbuilding in Marsa.source
  • 2016Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching were disqualified from LegCo membership.source
  • 2017Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is placed under house arrest, as the military take control of the country. He resigns six days later, after 37 years of rule.source
  • 2017The Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan suddenly vanished with 44 crew members on board whilst on a routine patrol in the South Atlantic. It would be found one year later wrecked 907 m below the Atlantic Ocean.source
  • 2017A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.source
  • 2020NASA and SpaceX launch the SpaceX Crew-1 mission from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A to the ISS, the first operational flight of the Crew Dragon capsule.source
  • 2020Lewis Hamilton wins his seventh Formula One World Drivers' Championship at the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix, equalling the record set by Michael Schumacher in 2004.source
  • 2022The 2022 G20 Bali summit in Bali, Indonesia takes place.source
  • 2022November 6–November 18 – The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) on climate change mitigation takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.source
  • 2022The world population reaches approximately 8 billion.source
  • 2024The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) Is rediscovered in the Elba Protected Area of Southeast Egypt, 5,000 years after the species was believed to have been extirpated from the region.source
  • 2024November 11–22 – COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan.source
  • 2025November 10–21 – The COP30 summit is held in Belém, Brazil, focusing on the role of the Amazon rainforest in climate action.source

Births

  • 459Bʼutz Aj Sak Chiik, king of Palenque (Mexico).source
  • 1316John the Posthumous, King of France (died 1316)source
  • 1397Pope Nicholas V (died 1455)source
  • 1453Alfonso, Prince of Asturiassource
  • 1498Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)source
  • 1498Eleanor of Austria, Queen consort of France. (d.1558)source
  • 1511Johannes Secundus, Dutch poet (died 1536)source
  • 1544Dorothea Susanne of Simmern, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar (died 1592)source
  • 1559Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (died 1621)source
  • 1607Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (died 1701)source
  • 1633Gesina ter Borch, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1690)source
  • 1661Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America (died 1743)source
  • 1670Bernard Mandeville, Dutch-born economic philosopher (died 1733)source
  • 1671November 15 (bapt.) – Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (died 1748)source
  • 1679Arcadio Huang (born Xinghua, modern Putian, in Fujian, 1679–1716), a Chinese Christian convert, brought to Paris by the Missions étrangères. He took a pioneering role in the teaching of the Chinese language in France around 1715source
  • 1708William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1778)source
  • 1708William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham ("the Elder"), Prime Minister (died 1778)source
  • 1731William Cowper, English poet (died 1800)source
  • 1738William Herschel, German-born astronomer (died 1822)source
  • 1738William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (died 1822)source
  • 1797Thurlow Weed, New York newspaper publisher, Whig and Republican politician (died 1882)source
  • 1869Gōtarō Mikami, military doctor (died 1964)source
  • 1877William Hope Hodgson, English author (died 1918)source
  • 1886René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (died 1951)source
  • 1887Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (died 1986)source
  • 1888José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban World chess champion (1921–1927) (died 1942)source
  • 1891Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (died 1944)source
  • 1897Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician (died 1960)source
  • 1906Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (died 1990)source
  • 1952Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (died 2011)source
  • 2016Copy That, Standardbred racehorsesource
  • 2019Legarto, Thoroughbred racehorsesource

Deaths

  • 655Æthelhere, king of East Angliasource
  • 655Penda, king of Merciasource
  • 1037Odo II, French nobleman (born 983)source
  • 1108Enrico Contarini, bishop of Castellosource
  • 1136Leopold III, margrave of Austria (born 1073)source
  • 1184Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress consort (born 1143)source
  • 1194Margaret I, countess of Flanderssource
  • 1226Frederick of Isenberg, German noblemansource
  • 1236Lope Díaz II, Castilian nobleman (born 1170)source
  • 1280Albertus Magnus, German theologiansource
  • 1347James I of Urgell, Prince of Aragon (born 1321)source
  • 1351Joanna of Pfirt, duchess consort of Austriasource
  • 1379Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (born 1346)source
  • 1463Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini, Prince of Taranto and Constable of Naples (born 1393)source
  • 1494William Calthorpe, English knight (born 1410)source
  • 1527Catherine of York, English princess (born 1479)source
  • 1544Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (born 1476)source
  • 1558The five Canterbury Martyrs, three men and two women, are burned at the stake, becoming the last of 312 Protestants put to death for heresy during the reign of England's Roman Catholic ruler, Queen Mary. Queen Mary dies two days later, bringing an end to her campaign. During the final year of Mary's reign, 49 Protestants are burned at the stake and three others die in prison while awaiting execution.source
  • 1579Francis David, Hungarian religious reformer (born 1510)source
  • 1594Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer (born 1535)source
  • 1614Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, Portuguese infanta (princess), claimant to the throne following the death of King Henry (born 1540)source
  • 1630Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (born 1571)source
  • 1635Thomas Parr, English alleged oldest living man (born 1483)source
  • 1643Tachibana Muneshige, Japanese samurai and soldier (born 1567)source
  • 1670Comenius, Czech writer (born 1592)source
  • 1675Preben von Ahnen, civil servant and landowner (born 1606).source
  • 1712James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer (born 1658)source
  • 1761Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye, French Canadian fur trader and explorer (born 1717)source
  • 1783John Hanson, American President of the Continental Congress (born 1721)source
  • 1783John Hanson, first president of the Continental Congress (born 1721)source
  • 1787Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (born 1714)source
  • 1794John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (born 1723)source
  • 1802George Romney, English artist (born 1734)source
  • 1839William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (born 1754)source
  • 1853Maria II of Portugal, queen regnant (born 1819)source
  • 1853Maria II of Portugal, queen (born 1819).source
  • 1863King Frederick VII of Denmark (born 1808)source
  • 1908Empress Dowager Cixi of China (born 1835)source
  • 1917Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (born 1858)source
  • 1949Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.source
  • 1967General Georgios Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.source
  • 1996Alger Hiss, 92, American State Department official and alleged spy.source
  • 2002Myra Hindley, 60, British serial killer, cardiovascular disease.source