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November 17 in history

233 sourced entries recorded on November 17, from 284 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 284Diocletian becomes emperor of Romesource
  • 375Emperor Valentinian I concludes an enduring peace with the Alamanni in Germany, then marches into Illyricum to repel an invasion of the Quadi and the Sarmatians on the Danube frontier. While negotiating with the Quadi, Valentinian, age 54, becomes so enraged that he dies in a fit of apoplexy at Brigetio (Hungary). Extreme cruelty has marked his 11-year reign, but he has also founded schools and provided physicians to serve the poor of Constantinople.source
  • 636November 16–19 – Battle of al-Qādisiyyah: The Muslim Arab army defeats the Persian forces under Rostam Farrokhzād, at Al-Qādisiyyah (Southern Mesopotamia).source
  • 887East Frankish magnates revolt against the inept emperor Charles III (the Fat) in an assembly at Frankfurt, and depose him. His nephew Arnulf of Carinthia, the illegitimate son of former king Carloman of Bavaria, is elected ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom. Charles yields his throne without a struggle, and retires to Neidingen.source
  • 1183Battle of Mizushima: The Taira Clan defeats the Minamoto Clan.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
  • 1208Innocent III asks the nobles in Northern France to take military action (the so-called Albigensian Crusade) against the Cathars in Languedoc.source
  • 1225After being taken prisoner of war at the Battle of Mölln in January, the Danish governor Albrecht signs the Peace of Bardowick in order to obtain his freedom, ceding Holstein to Adolf of Schauenberg, in addition to releasing King Valdemar II of Denmark and his son Valdemar the Younger, who both had been kidnapped in 1223 and held as prisoners.source
  • 1232Emperor Go-Horikawa abdicates in favor of his 1-year-old son, Shijō, after an 11-year reign. Because he is very young, most of the actual leadership is held by his relatives.source
  • 1278King Edward I ("Longshanks") raises the penalty for coin clipping from banishment to execution. All Jews are subjected to arrest and search of their homes on suspicion of coin clipping. Some 680 Jews are imprisoned in the Tower of London, with more than 300 subsequently executed. At this time, the Jewish population is believed to have been some 3,000.source
  • 1292John Balliol is selected by King Edward I of England as ruler of Scotland at Berwick from among 13 competitors for the Crown of Scotland. Edward then treats John as a puppet ruler and Scotland as a vassal state, provoking the Wars of Scottish Independence, commencing in 1296. John is crowned at Scone on November 30 (Saint Andrew's Day). Scotland's castles are returned to the powerful magnates.source
  • 1307The Mongol General Bilarghu hosts the Armenian Kings Hethum II and Leo III at a banquet at his in castle at Anazarbus (now in ruins near the Turkish village of Dilekkaya). After the guests complete the banquet, Bilarghu massacres all of the Armenian royalty and nobles.source
  • 1315The marriage of King James II of Aragon to Marie of Lusignan is performed in person after Marie has traveled to Spain, with the ceremony taking place at Girona.source
  • 1349Pope Clement VI annuls the marriage of William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, and Joan of Kent, on the grounds of her prior marriage to Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent.source
  • 1350To pay for the expenses of the revived war with the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa has to subscribe a loan at an interest rate of 10%, from an association of creditors known as the Compera imposita per gerra Venetorum.source
  • 1387The three rebel Lords Appellant— Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick arrive at King Richard's palace at Westminster after traveling with 300 men on horseback to confront the King, and effectively take control of the government of England. The Lords demand that advisers Neville, Pole, De Vere, Tresilian and Brembre be held in custody until a trial can take place, and the King agrees after they threaten to take the government by force.source
  • 1405The Sultanate of Sulu is established on the Sulu Archipelago, off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines.source
  • 1420Hundred Years' War: Melun surrenders to the English.source
  • 1421November 17–19 – St. Elizabeth's flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded, due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10,000 people, and the course of the Meuse is changed.source
  • 1423Three weeks before his second birthday, King Henry VI of England is brought before the assembled members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons for the first time.source
  • 1461The coronation of Stephen Tomašević as the King of Bosnia takes place at Saint Mary's Church at Jajce.source
  • 1475The Emirate of Granada, led by the Emir Abu'l-Hasan Ali and now part of Spain's Mediterranean coast, signs a peace treaty with the Spanish Kingdom of Castile and León, led by the joint monarchs Isabella and Fernando. In the agreement, Granada offers to assist the Castilians against any attempt by Portugal to invade the Castilian region, Córdoba, that borders Granada.source
  • 1494Italian War of 1494–98: The armies of King Charles VIII of France enter Florence. Charles is dissuaded from destroying the city by the Florentine leader, Girolamo Savonarola, who had recently taken control from the Medici family. After being persuaded that he has a divine role of reformation of the Roman Catholic Church, King Charles spares Florence from destruction and leaves the city on November 28, guiding his troops onward toward Rome.source
  • 1494Italian War of 1494–98: The armies of Charles VIII of France enter Florence.source
  • 1511The Treaty of Westminster creates an alliance between Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon against France. Mallett and Shaw, The Italian Wars, 103; Hutchinson, Young Henry, 159.source
  • 1522The second Diet of Nuremberg opens to discuss various matters of the Holy Roman Empire, including the Protestant Reformation.source
  • 1553November 17 (13th waxing of Natdaw 915 ME) – Bayinnaung, King of Burma, commissions the building of the Kanbawzathadi Palace in his capital, Pegu (modern-day Bago in Myanmar). The palace is completed in 1556 but is burned down in 1599.source
  • 1556In the Holy Roman Empire, the Steter Kriegsrat is founded as a War Council with five generals and five civil servants to advise the Habsburg rulers.source
  • 1558the Protestant Elizabeth I succeeds as Queen of England and Ireland upon the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary I. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement follows.source
  • 1570A major earthquake strikes the Italian city of Ferrara at 3:00 in the morning local time, destroying 40 percent of the buildings in the city, but causing only 171 deaths. After the initial shocks, a sequence of aftershocks continue for four years, with over 2,000 in the period from November 1570 to February 1571.source
  • 1592John III is succeeded by his son, the Polish electoral monarch Sigismund III Vasa, which create a personal union between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Poland. This is opposed by both the Royal Council and Duke Charles, who unite against him.source
  • 1592Sigismund III Vasa becomes the new King of Sweden upon the death of his father, King John III.source
  • 1595In the remodeling of the Church of Saint Sylvester in Rome, the ashes of Pope Anterus are discovered almost 1,360 years after his death. Anterus had served as Pope for six weeks before dying on January 3, 236.source
  • 1603Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason, in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle. He is found guilty, but his life is spared by King James I at this time, and he is returned to imprisonment in the Tower of London.source
  • 1614the Royal Danish Army army is established along with several infantry regiments, including: the Funen Life Regiment, Scanian Regiment, and Zealand Life Regiment.source
  • 1617A naval battle between the Sicilians and Venetians ends inconclusively.source
  • 1634Cardinal Mazarin, named apostolic nuncio extraordinary on August 19, arrives in Paris to negotiate restitution of the estates of the Duke of Lorraine and to reconcile France and the Habsburgs, taking up his duties on November 26.source
  • 1653Departure times for the boat service between Liège and Huy publishedsource
  • 1657Henry Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.source
  • 1664Latvian colonist Jacob Kettler, Duke of Courland, gives up all of his rights to his African colony at St Andrew's Island in the Gambia River to representatives of King Charles II, in return for keeping possession of the Caribbean island of Tobago.source
  • 1679The Green Ribbon Club, a predecessor of the Whigs, organises a procession to burn an effigy of the Pope in London.source
  • 1680The Green Ribbon Club, a predecessor of the British Whigs, organizes a procession to burn an effigy of the Pope in London for the second year running.source
  • 1680the Green Ribbon Club, a predecessor of the Whigs, organises a procession to burn an effigy of the Pope in London for the second year running.source
  • 1690Barclays, which will continue to be active into the 21st century as a multinational bank and lending institution, is founded in London by John Freame and Thomas Gould as Freame & Gould. The bank changes its name in 1736 when James Barclay becomes a partner.source
  • 1706Thomas Mansel, future Baron Mansel, becomes 5th Baronet Mansel of Margam on the death of his father Edward Mansel.source
  • 1747November 17–19 – The Knowles Riot breaks out in Boston, Massachusetts, protesting impressment into the British Royal Navy.source
  • 1751The Pima Revolt begins in the area that now includes the Mexican state of Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona, as Pima Indian leader Luis Oacpicagigua carries out the massacre of 18 Spanish settlers at Oacpicagigua's home in Sáric. The rebellion, which takes the lives of more than 100 Spaniards, is ended on March 18 after Governor Diego Ortiz Parilla permits the rebels to surrender for imprisonment.source
  • 1751Future United States President George Washington becomes seriously ill with smallpox while he and his older brother Lawrence are visiting the island of Barbados during an epidemic Washington, 19 years old, survives the virus but is bedridden for almost a month.source
  • 1775The city of Kuopio, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden.source
  • 1777American Revolution: The Articles of Confederation are submitted to the states for ratification.source
  • 1786Six locations are granted municipal rights. This year is regarded as the founding of Reykjavík.source
  • 1796Battle of Arcole: French forces under General Napoleon defeat the Austrians at Arcole. After a bold maneuver, he outflanks the Austrian army (24,000 men) under Freiherr József Alvinczi, and cuts off its line of retreat. Alvinczi is forced to take up a defensive position behind the Brenta River.source
  • 1800The United States Congress holds its first Washington, D.C., session.source
  • 1810Anglo-Swedish War (1810–12): Sweden declares war on the United Kingdom.source
  • 1811José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.source
  • 1812November 15–18 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Krasnoi: Napoleon's retreating army is again defeated in a series of skirmishes.source
  • 1820American seal hunter Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the third known explorer to sight Antarctica. The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.source
  • 1829Jules de Polignac becomes president of the council of ministers.source
  • 1831Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.source
  • 1837The Treaty of Paucarpata is signed, temporarily ending the War of the Confederation.source
  • 1837An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes tsunamis that led to significant destruction along Japan's coast.source
  • 1837The 1837 Valdivia earthquake is felt from Concepción to Chonos Archipelago.source
  • 1839Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, opens in Milan.source
  • 1843The city of Shanghai opens for trade with foreigners for the first time, welcoming a party of traders from the United Kingdom.source
  • 1846Carl Zeiss, a major worldwide optoelectronics and digital camera brand, is founded in Thuringia, Germany.source
  • 1847The Battle of Um Swayya Spring takes place near a spring in Qatar, after a Bahraini force under Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Deputy Ruler of Bahrain defeats the Al Binali tribe. The chief of the Al Binali, Isa bin Tureef, is slain in battle with over 70 fatalities from his side.source
  • 1847The first fencibles move to Onehunga.source
  • 1848Karl von Urban liberates Klausenburg (Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár), the capital of the Principality of Transylvania, during the Hungarian Revolutionary War.source
  • 1854In Egypt, the Suez Canal Company is formed.source
  • 1855Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in modern-day Zambia–Zimbabwe.source
  • 1855explorer David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls in Africa.source
  • 1856American Old West: On the Sonoita River in modern-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan, in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.source
  • 1858Modified Julian Day zero starts on this date.source
  • 1858The city of Denver, Colorado, is founded.source
  • 1865Chincha Islands War: Action of 17 November 1865 – A Spanish gunboat is captured by the Chilean tugboat Independencia off Tomé, in the Bay of Concepción, Chile.source
  • 1869In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.source
  • 1871The National Rifle Association of America is granted a charter by the state of New York.source
  • 1871George Biddell Airy presents his discovery that astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.source
  • 1871George Biddell Airy presents his discovery that astronomical aberration is independent of the local medium.source
  • 1872Edvard Engelsaas, speed skater and world championsource
  • 1873Budapest, Hungary's capital, is formed from Pest, Buda and Óbuda.source
  • 1878The first assassination attempt is made against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, armed with a dagger. The King survives with a slight wound in one arm. Prime minister Benedetto Cairoli blocks the aggressor, receiving a leg injury.source
  • 1881The trial of Charles J. Guiteau begins in Washington, D.C.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
  • 1889The Brazilian Imperial Family is forced into exile in France.source
  • 1889Emperor Dom Pedro II and his family are sent into exile in Europe.source
  • 1892French troops occupy Abomey, capital of the kingdom of Dahomey.source
  • 1892French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey.source
  • 1893Two boatmen involved in the Aberavon drowning disaster of 7 August are found not guilty of manslaughter by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court.source
  • 1895Portuguese legislative election, 1895source
  • 1895Flamengo, a well known professional football club in Brazil, is officially founded.source
  • 1898Fighting begins in Pana, Illinois, between striking white coal miners and black miners hired to replace them.source
  • 1903The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").source
  • 1905The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 ("Eulsa Treaty") effectively makes Korea a protectorate of Japan.source
  • 1911Omega Psi Phi fraternity is founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C.source
  • 1913The National Transcontinental Railway is completedsource
  • 1917WWI: The Battle of Jerusalem (1917) begins, with the British Imperial Egyptian Expeditionary Force launching attacks against Ottoman forces in the Judean Hills.source
  • 1917The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals is founded in the United Kingdom.source
  • 1919American expatriate Sylvia Beach opens the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.source
  • 1920The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.source
  • 1921Professor Robert Jack assembles a small transmitter at the University of Otago in Dunedin and broadcasts the first ever radio programme heard on New Zealand airwaves. The only known fact about the programme's content is that it included the then popular song "Hello My Dearie".source
  • 1922Rand Rebellion strikers Samuel Long, Herbert Hull and David Lewis are hanged for murder.source
  • 1925The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand.source
  • 1925The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens at Logan Park, Dunedinsource
  • 1927Leyland Titan double deck bus introduced. Its low chassis sets a significant trend in bus design which lasts for forty years.source
  • 19281928 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by James Scullin.source
  • 1928Boston Garden opens in Boston, Massachusetts.source
  • 19291929 Mexican presidential election: Pascual Ortiz Rubio of the National Revolutionary Party is elected the new President. It is now widely thought that the election was rigged.source
  • 1930SCF dissolved itselfsource
  • 1931November 4–18 - Jiangqiao Campaignsource
  • 1932new statute of the National Fascisct party.source
  • 1939WWII: To punish protests against the Nazi occupation of the Czech homeland, the Nazis storm the University of Prague and murder 9 Czech graduate students, send over 1,200 to concentration camps, and close all Czech universities, an event which will be commemorated as International Students' Day.source
  • 1940The Tartu Art Museum is established in Tartu, Estonia.source
  • 1947December 23 – John Bardeen and Walter Brattain working under William Shockley at AT&T's Bell Labs in the United States demonstrate the transistor effect, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.source
  • 1947The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.source
  • 1948Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi divorces his second wife, the former Princess Fawzia of Egypt.source
  • 1948Whittaker Chambers produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination.source
  • 1949The second trial of Alger Hiss for perjury begins in New York, again with Whittaker Chambers as principal witness.source
  • 1950Tenzin Gyatso, 15, is formally enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama, becoming temporal ruler of Tibet.source
  • 19541954 Albanian Cup: team Dinamo Tirana wins the finals, beating Partizani with a 2-1.source
  • 1961Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor of New York and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.source
  • 1962Dulles International Airport, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.source
  • 1966The U.N. General Assembly decides to found the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.source
  • 1966A spectacular Leonid meteor shower passes over Arizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.source
  • 1967Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remains to be done, "We are making progress [...] We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking." (Two months later the Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong is widely reported as a Viet Cong victory by the U.S. press and thus as a major setback to the U.S.)source
  • 1967Mons Ivar Mjelde, footballersource
  • 1967French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after less than three years imprisonment.)source
  • 1968British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.source
  • 1968The "Heidi Game": NBC cuts off the final 1:05 of an Oakland Raiders–New York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled Heidi. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.source
  • 1969Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.source
  • 1969RTM2 was launched from Angkasapuri, Kuala lumpur.source
  • 1970Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.source
  • 1971Fidel Castro visits the municipal stadium and the huachipato plant in Concepción, Chilesource
  • 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
  • 1973The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurs against the military regime in Athens, Greece.source
  • 1974The 1974 Greek legislative election, the first election since the fall of the Greek junta of 1967–1974, is held and the newly formed New Democracy party wins 220 of 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament.source
  • 1983The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.source
  • 1985Assassination of Michalis Kaltezas during annual November 17 Polytechnic demonstrations.source
  • 1987A tsunami hits the Gulf of Alaska.source
  • 1989Cold War: Velvet Revolution – A peaceful student demonstration in Prague, Czechoslovakia, is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).source
  • 1989Walt Disney Pictures 28th animated film, The Little Mermaid and United Artists's All Dogs Go to Heaven are both released in theatres.source
  • 1993In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.source
  • 1993The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle.source
  • 1993November 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.source
  • 1996A bomb explodes in Kaspiysk, Russia, killing 32 people.source
  • 1997The Ayer Rajah Expressway extension to Tuas is officially opened, formed by the expansion of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim into an expressway. The route will cater for the opening of the Second Link in 1998.source
  • 1998Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU.source
  • 1999Enrique Urquijo, singer-songwriter (born 1960; drug overdose)source
  • 2004Hella Haasse receives the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren.source
  • 2004November 14–26 – Typhoon Muifa kills 600 people in the Philippines.source
  • 2010failed military coup attempt against President of the High Transitional Authority of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina.source
  • 2010Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.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
  • 2012A railway accident in Manfalut resulted in the death of 50 school children and one bus driver.source
  • 2016Međimurska trikotaža Čakovec, a large Croatian knitwear company based in Čakovec, ceased to existsource
  • 2021Police fired tear gas to quell an anti-government protest against deteriorating economic conditions and rising cost of living in Malawi. Hundreds of people poured onto the streets of the southern commercial hub of Blantyre, calling on President Lazarus Chakwera’s administration to take immediate steps to rein in soaring prices and unemployment. The protesters set tires on fire and blocked roads to bring traffic to a halt in parts of the city, and also torched a police post in Blantyre’s central business district. “They have failed to fulfill their promises of easing the suffering of Malawians. The cost of living is too high as prices of essentials, including food and fuel, are soaring.”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
  • 2023The global average temperature temporarily exceeds 2 °C above the pre-industrial average for the first time in recorded history.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
  • 2025Former prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina is found guilty of crimes against humanity by a Bangladeshi tribunal and sentenced to death in absentia.source

Births

  • 1019Sima Guang, Chinese politician and writer (died 1086)source
  • 1412Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (died 1468)source
  • 1493John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (died 1543)source
  • 1503Agnolo di Cosimo, Italian artist and poet (died 1572)source
  • 1587Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist and poet (died 1679)source
  • 1587Charles Lallemant, French Jesuit (died 1674)source
  • 1587Charles Lallemant, French Jesuit (died 1674)source
  • 1612Dorgon, Chinese Manchu prince (died 1650)source
  • 1645Nicolas Lemery, French chemist (died 1715)source
  • 1681Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian (died 1776)source
  • 1685Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, French Canadian military officer (died 1749)source
  • 1689Jean François Foppens, Flemish historian (died 1761)source
  • 1729Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain, Queen consort of Sardinia (died 1785)source
  • 1749Nicolas Appert French inventor (died 1841)source
  • 1755Louis XVIII of France, brother of King Louis XVI (died 1824)source
  • 1765Étienne Macdonald, French marshal (died 1840)source
  • 1770Marta María Stephensen, writer.source
  • 1790August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician, astronomer (died 1868)source
  • 1793Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (died 1865)source
  • 1854Hubert Lyautey, Marshal of France (died 1934)source
  • 1877Frank Lahm, Brigadier General USAF, airship pilot, early military aviator trained by the Wright brothers (died 1963)source
  • 1887Bernard Montgomery, British World War II commander (died 1976)source
  • 1904Paul Chaudet, politician (died 1977)source
  • 1938Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer-songwriter (died 2023)source
  • 1952Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africasource

Deaths

  • 344Jin Kangdi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (born 322)source
  • 374Pap of Armenia (or Papas), king of Armeniasource
  • 375Valentinian I, Roman emperor (born 321)source
  • 474Leo II, Byzantine emperor (born 467)source
  • 474Leo II dies of an unknown disease (possibly poisoned by his mother Ariadne), after a reign of 10 months. Zeno becomes sole Eastern Emperor.source
  • 594Gregory of Tours, bishop and historiansource
  • 641Emperor Jomei of Japan, age 48, dies after a 12-year reign.source
  • 641Emperor Jomei of Japan (born 593)source
  • 885Liutgard of Saxony, Frankish queensource
  • 935Wang Yanjun, Emperor Huizong of Min (Ten Kingdoms), is killed in his own palace in an uprising together with his empress consort and several clansmen, and succeeded as second emperor by his son Wang Jipeng.source
  • 935Chen Jinfeng, empress consort of Min (born 893) — assassinationsource
  • 935Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms) — assassinationsource
  • 1188Usama ibn Munqidh, Arabian poet and knight (born 1095)source
  • 1215Giles de Braose, bishop of Herefordsource
  • 1231Elizabeth, Hungarian princess (born 1207)source
  • 1302Gertrude the Great, German mystic (born 1256)source
  • 1326Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman and knight (born 1285)source
  • 1417Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (born 1288)source
  • 1494Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (born 1463)source
  • 1503Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Savoy (born 1449)source
  • 1525Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)source
  • 1528Jakob Wimpfeling, Renaissance humanist (born 1450)source
  • 1557November 17 (27th day of the 10th month of Kōji 3) – Prince Michihito of Japan becomes the Emperor Ōgimachi almost two months after the September 27 death of his father, the Emperor Go-Nara.source
  • 1558Reginald Pole, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1500)source
  • 1558(bur.) Hugh Aston, English composer (born 1485)source
  • 1558Queen Mary, a devout Roman Catholic dies of uterine cancer at the age of 42, and is succeeded by her younger half-sister Elizabeth, an adherent to the Protestant Church of England, beginning the Elizabethan era in British history.source
  • 1558Queen Mary I of England (born 1516)source
  • 1558Mary I, Queen of Ireland (born 1516)source
  • 1562King Antoine of Navarre, father of Henry IV of France (born 1518)source
  • 1573Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Spanish philosopher and theologian (born 1494)source
  • 1592King John III of Sweden (born 1537)source
  • 1592John III, monarch (born 1537)source
  • 1611Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans, French duke (born 1607)source
  • 1624Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)source
  • 1668Joseph Alleine, English non-conformist preacher (born 1634)source
  • 1747Alain-René Lesage, French writer (born 1668)source
  • 1768Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1693)source
  • 1789Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (born 1737)source
  • 1796Empress Catherine II of Russia (born 1729)source
  • 1808David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (born 1721)source
  • 1818Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (born 1744)source
  • 1818Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (born 1744)source
  • 1845Sir Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, British admiral (born 1778)source
  • 1858Robert Owen, British social reformer (born 1771)source
  • 1917Auguste Rodin, French sculptor (born 1840)source
  • 1981Yusuf Khatib, head of the Ramallah Village League, and his son are assassinated by Palestinian militants. Following the assassination, the Israeli government begins distributing weapons to Village League members.source
  • 1997In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut.source