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November 28 in history

174 sourced entries recorded on November 28, from 587 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 587Treaty of Andelot: Guntram recognizes King Childebert II of Austrasia as heir. He signs a treaty with Queen Brunhilda at Andelot-Blancheville.source
  • 936Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Tai Zong, ruler of the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty, following a revolt against his rival, emperor Fei of Later Tang.source
  • 1095Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse ("Saint-Gilles"), to lead the First Crusade.source
  • 1229Battle of Olustra: Eric XI (the Lisp and Lame) is defeated and deposed as king of Sweden by Canute II (the Tall), who proclaims himself the new ruler.source
  • 1379From Avignon in France, the antipope Clement VII issues his own a papal bull confirming the foundation of the University of Perpignan.source
  • 1399At Suceava (now in Romania), Iuga Voda Ologul becomes prince of Moldaviasource
  • 1432The Ming Chinese expedition lands at the island of Sri Lanka, coming ashore at Beruwala at the Kingdom of Kotte, ruled by Parakramabahu VI, but departs for India four days later.source
  • 1443Skanderbeg and his forces, rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, liberate Krujë, in Middle Albania, and raise the Albanian flag.source
  • 1451At the Korean capital, Hanseong, Hwangbo In becomes the Chief State Councillor (Yeonguijeong) of the Kingdom of Korea as leader of the governing State Council, second in status only to King Munjong, replacing Ha Yeon.source
  • 1470Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt launches a naval expedition against Champa, beginning the Cham–Annamese War.source
  • 1494French military under Charles VIII marched on to Rome from Florence.source
  • 1514Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha steps down as Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1520After navigating through the strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean. Magellan thankful to find a peaceful sea after the dangerous trip through the strait, names the body of water "El Mar Pacifico" because of its pacifying waters. becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific (the strait is later named the Strait of Magellan).source
  • 1561The Treaty of Vilnius is concluded during the Livonian War, between the Livonian Confederation and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. With the treaty, the non-Danish and non-Swedish part of Livonia, with the exception of the Free imperial city of Riga, subjects itself to Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus with the Pacta subiectionis (Provisio ducalis). In turn, Sigismund grants protection from the Tsardom of Russia, and confirms the Livonian estates' traditional privileges, laid out in the Privilegium Sigismundi Augusti.source
  • 1585Anglo-Spanish War: The island of Santiago in Cape Verde is captured by Francis Drake.source
  • 1627Polish-Swedish War: Battle of Oliwa – A Polish-Lithuanian fleet defeats a Swedish fleet.source
  • 1660At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren, and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning" (later known as the Royal Society).source
  • 1660at Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Robert Moray, meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning" (later known as the Royal Society).source
  • 1662The English Royal Society holds its first meeting.source
  • 1666The Battle of Rullion Green takes place in the Pentland Hills near Midlothian in Scotland as the culmination of the brief 'Pentland Rising' which began on November 15 as a rebellion by the Covenanters who oppose changes in the Church of Scotland. At least 2,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army, led by General Thomas Dalyell, defeat more than 750 Covenanter rebels who have been under the command of James Wallace of Auchens.source
  • 1669In India, the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb learns of a rebellion of Hindu residents of in various parts of the Mathurá where he had given the order for the destruction of non-Muslim temples, with rioting in Mauza' Rewarah, Chandarkah, and Surkhrú. The Emperor's historian, Saqi Mustaid Khan, records Aurangzeb's dispatch of General Hasan 'Ali Khán to attack the rebels, and 300 of them are "sent to perdition" while the Mughals lose "many imperial soldiers". Another 250 surviving rebels are arrested. Kokilá Ját, leader of the rebels, is among the prisoners put to death a month later.source
  • 1672after more than five years of administration of the Treasury by a five-member commission, Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, one of the members, becomes the Lord High Treasurer of England.source
  • 1672After more than five years of administration of the Treasury of England by a five-member commission, Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, one of the commission members, becomes the Lord High Treasurer of England.source
  • 1705The Treaty of Warsaw is concluded between the Swedish Empire and the faction of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth loyal to Stanisław Leszczyński during the Great Northern War.source
  • 1706The royal wedding of Prussia takes place in Berlin between the 18-year-old Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and his bride Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, the 19-year-old daughter of the future King George I of Great Britain.source
  • 1715The application of the Nueva Planta decrees, in Mallorca and the other Balearic Islands (formerly under the Crown of Aragon), bring them under the laws of the Crown of Castile.source
  • 1717Pirates led by Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and Benjamin Hornigold capture the French slave transport Concorde near island of Saint Vincent the West Indies. Blackbeard renames the vessel Queen Anne's Revenge, adds to its armaments, and makes it his flagship. Hornigold soon accepts a British amnesty for all pirates, and Blackbeard teams up with Stede Bonnet and begins plundering ships approaching North American ports.source
  • 1729theologian Thomas Woolston is convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to prison for the remaining four years of his life on account of his published Discourses on Biblical literalism.source
  • 1737Vallø Stift is established.source
  • 1739Hørsholm is incorporated as a market town.source
  • 1745King George's War: A combined force of troops from the French Army and of the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki and Penobscot tribes) destroys the British American settlement at Fort Saratoga (modern Schuylerville, New York), burning the fort and surrounding buildings to the ground, and killing 15 people. Another 103 survivors are taken prisoner.source
  • 1754Denmark establishes the Renteskirverkontor, an office within the Chamber of Finance, to oversee the colonial affairs of the Danish West Indies (Dansk Vestindien). Peder Mariager, who had been a minor official of the Danish West Indies Company, becomes the first administrator. The colony, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix later is purchased by the United States from Denmark and is now the U.S. Virgin Islands.source
  • 1776The 9th North Carolina Regiment is established.source
  • 1780A lightning strike in Saint Petersburg begins a fire that burns 11,000 homes.source
  • 1785The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation.source
  • 1798Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when John Leamy's frigate John arrives in Montevideo.source
  • 1806French troops enter Warsaw.source
  • 1814The Active finally departs Port Jackson on its way to establish the mission at Rangihoua.source
  • 1821Panama declares independence from Spain, joining Gran Colombia.source
  • 1836The University of London is established by Royal Charter, with University College London and King's College London named as the first affiliated colleges.source
  • 1843Hawaii is recognized as an independent nation by the United Kingdom and France. The holiday is celebrated annually as La Ku'oko'a (Independence Day).source
  • 1843Ka La Ku'oko'a (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawai`i is officially recognized by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and July Monarchy France as an independent nation.source
  • 1858At Jekyll Island, Georgia, the Wanderer illegally lands 400 slaves purchased from traders at the mouth of the Congo River.source
  • 1862Notts County F.C. is founded in Nottingham, England, making it (by the 21st century) the world's oldest professional Association football team.source
  • 1872Geologist Clarence King uncovers the diamond hoax in Wyoming in The New York Times.source
  • 1874King Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States begins when the ship carrying him from Hawaii, USS Benicia, docks in San Francisco.source
  • 1883Whitman College is chartered as a 4-year college in Walla Walla, Washington.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
  • 1885The railway line from Cape Town to Kimberley is completed.source
  • 1891The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is organized in St. Louis, Missouri.source
  • 1895Chicago Times-Herald race: The first American automobile race in history is sponsored by the Chicago Times-Herald. Press coverage first arouses significant American interest in the automobile.source
  • 1901Øksnehallen opens in the Meatpacking District in Copenhagen.source
  • 1903SS Petriana is wrecked on a reef outside Melbourne, Australia, causing one of the world's first major oil spills.source
  • 1903The oil tanker SS Petriana strikes a reef at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. Two days later, its cargo of 1,300 tonnes of crude oil is released, causing the first major oil spill in Australia.source
  • 1905Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin in Dublin, as a political party whose goal is independence for all of Ireland.source
  • 1905The Mataafa Storm buffets the Great Lakes region. Named after the SS Mataafa, a boat sunk outside of the Duluth Ship Canal, the storm ultimately destroys 29 vessels, leading to 29 deaths and shipping losses of US$3.567 million (1905 dollars).source
  • 1909Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premièred in New York City with the composer as soloist.source
  • 1912Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1914World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.source
  • 1918Estonian War of Independence: The Red Army invades Estonia, starting the war. The Commune of the Working People of Estonia is established as a Soviet puppet state in Narva on the next day.source
  • 1920FIDAC (French: Fédération Interalliée des Anciens Combattants, English: The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations) is established in Paris at the initiative of veterans from World War I, predominantly pacifists, joined by associations of veterans from France, the United Kingdom, United States, Belgium, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Serbia.source
  • 1920Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush – The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army, led by Tom Barry, ambushes two lorries carrying men of the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary at Kilmichael, County Cork, killing 17 (with 3 of its own men also dying), which leads to official reprisals.source
  • 1925The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".source
  • 1928Persija Jakarta Association football club is founded as Voetbalbond Indonesische Jacatra.source
  • 1942Cocoanut Grove fire: A fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts, kills 491.source
  • 1943WWII: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, to discuss war strategy. On November 30, they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord.source
  • 1943First issue of the weekly newspaper O Benficasource
  • 1944Allied shipping starts to use the Port of Antwerp.source
  • 1945The 1945 Balochistan earthquake causes a tsunami and kills 4,000.source
  • 1946Former Prime Minister Pierre Prüm is sentenced to four years in prison for collaboration with Nazi Germany.source
  • 1949Winston Churchill makes a landmark speech in support of the idea of a European Union, at Kingsway Hall, London - but does not see UK as part of it, "The British Government have rightly stated that they cannot commit this country to entering any European Union without the agreement of the other members of the British Commonwealth".source
  • 1950Greece and Yugoslavia reform diplomatic relations.source
  • 1950The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South and South-East Asia comes into effect.source
  • 1956Roger Vadim's film And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme), is released in France, making Brigitte Bardot an international sex symbol.source
  • 1958Chad, the Republic of the Congo and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French colonial empire.source
  • 1961After Morocco's King Hassan II agreed to allow the Arab nation's Jewish minority to leave, the first group 105 Jews was allowed to fly out to Israel. By the end of the year, 11,478 had left, and over the next two years, the 85,000 members of the community had emigrated.source
  • 1964Vietnam War: United States National Security Council members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor, agree to recommend a plan for a 2-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam, to President Lyndon B. Johnson.source
  • 1964Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.source
  • 1966Truman Capote's Black and White Ball ("The Party of the Century") is held in New York City.source
  • 1967The first pulsar to be discovered by Earth observers is found in the constellation of Vulpecula by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, and is given the name PSR B1919+21.source
  • 1968Ana Maria Alvarado, journalistsource
  • 1970November 27–29 – Papal visit of Pope Paul VI, the country's first. Upon his arrival at Manila International Airport, he survived an assassination attempt by a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza (a knife-wielding assailant dressed as a priest).source
  • 1974Third Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh was passed bringing changes in Article 2 of the constitution. An agreement was made between Bangladesh and India in respect of exchange of certain enclaves and fixation of boundary lines between the countries.source
  • 1975Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.source
  • 1975South African Navy frigates evacuate 26 SADF members from behind enemy lines at Ambrizete, 160 km north of Luanda in Angola.source
  • 1979Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.source
  • 1980Nachum Gutman (born 1898), Russian (Bessarabia)-born Israeli painter, sculptor and author.source
  • 1982The Edmonton Eskimos win an unprecedented 5th consecutive Grey Cup – a feat yet unaccomplished by any professional football franchise – to win the 70th Grey Cup, defeating the Toronto Argonauts 32–16.source
  • 1984Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.source
  • 1986The start of operation of Canadian Trade Office in Taipei in Taipei City.source
  • 1987Hussain Muhammad Ershad declares a state of emergency and bans strikes. All educational institutes are declared closed until 4 December.source
  • 1987South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, due to a fire in the cargo hold; the 159 passengers and crew perish.source
  • 1989Cold War: Velvet Revolution – The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-Communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than forty years).source
  • 1993The Observer reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.source
  • 1994Voters in Norway decide not to join the European Union in a referendum.source
  • 1995Twenty-seven nations sign the Barcelona Treaty, creating the Union for the Mediterranean.source
  • 1998Floods devastate rice fields, pushing Bangladesh's annual food shortfall to 4.3 million tons. Over 1000 people reportedly died in the floods.source
  • 20022002 Mombasa attacks: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.source
  • 2004Cambodia–Laos–Vietnam Development Triangle Area was ratified.source
  • 2005The United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Montreal.source
  • 2005Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called the former prime minister Iyad Allawi's comments "nonsense". Allawi claimed that the human rights abuses in Iraq were as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein. Talabani stated that the government was against any form of torture or harming of prisoners.source
  • 2008November 26–29 – 2008 Mumbai attacks: Ten terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terror group, carry out four days of coordinated bombing and shooting attacks across Mumbai, killing 166 people. One terrorist, Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive and executed in 2012.source
  • 2010WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".source
  • 2012November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.source
  • 2016LaMia Flight 2933 crashes into a mountain near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 of the 77 people on board, including members of the Brazilian Chapecoense football squad.source
  • 2018Chinese scientist He Jiankui, at a public conference in Hong Kong, announces that he has altered the DNA of twin human girls born earlier in the month to try to make them resistant to infection with the HIV virus; he also reveals the possible second pregnancy of another gene-modified baby.source
  • 2019The United Nations blames anti-vaccination messages for the current outbreak of measles in the country, where the death toll has risen to 39 and is expected to rise as 200 are reported hospitalised, according to the World Health Organization. Total cases now soar to near 3,000.source
  • 2022The Malawi government purportedly signed a US$6.8 billion grant agreement with the Belgium-registered Bridgin Foundation, promising infrastructure and development projects, sparking immediate controversy over its legitimacy.source
  • 2023The Supreme Court declares the law granting First Quantum Minerals a mining contract for the Cobre Panamá mine unconstitutional, after which President Laurentino Cortizo announced that the mine would be closed.source
  • 2025November 27–30 – An ecumenical meeting of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church at Nicaea is held to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea.source
  • 2025Flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah leave at least 647 dead and 183 missing across Sri Lanka and South India.source

Births

  • 1118Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (died 1180)source
  • 1470Wen Zhengming, artist in Ming dynasty China (died 1559)source
  • 1475Anne Shelton, elder sister of Thomas Boleyn (died 1556)source
  • 1489Margaret Tudor, Scottish regent, Queen of James IV of Scotland, daughter of Henry VII of England (died 1541)source
  • 1553George More, English politician (died 1632)source
  • 1563Hosokawa Tadaoki, Japanese daimyō (died 1646)source
  • 1570James Whitelocke, English judge (died 1632)source
  • 1592Hong Taiji, Emperor of China (died 1643)source
  • 1607Francesco Sforza Pallavicino (died 1667)source
  • 163128 November (baptism) – Abraham Brueghel, painter (died c. 1690)source
  • 1632Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (died 1687)source
  • 1657Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, heir apparent to the Spanish throne (died 1661)source
  • 1661Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (died 1723)source
  • 1661Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey (died 1723)source
  • 1666Magnus Berg, woodcarver, sculptor, painter (died 1739).source
  • 1681Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (died 1740)source
  • 1683Yun'e (1683–1741), born Yin'e, was a Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty of China. He was a relatively unremarkable prince who was primarily known to be a crony of his older brother Yunsi.source
  • 1698Charlotta Frölich, historian and agronomist (died 1770)source
  • 1700Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (died 1770)source
  • 1718Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Swedish writer (died 1763)source
  • 1757William Blake, English poet and artist (died 1827)source
  • 1765George William Manby, English author and inventor (died 1854)source
  • 1778Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, Alaouite dynasty member (died 1859)source
  • 1792Victor Cousin, French philosopher (died 1867)source
  • 1820Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (died 1895)source
  • 1829Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer (died 1894)source
  • 1862Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (died 1959)source
  • 1919Keith Miller, Australian sportsman and Air force pilot (died 2004)source
  • 1962Jon Stewart, American actor, comedian, media critic and television personality, host of The Daily Show (1999–2015)source
  • 1972Mungonzazal Janshindulam, pianist and music teacher (died 2007)source

Deaths

  • 741Pope Gregory III dies at Rome, after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by Zachary, as the 91st pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 741Gregory III, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 939Lady Ma, Chinese noblewoman (born 890)source
  • 1058Casimir I the Restorer, duke of Poland (born 1016)source
  • 1118Philippa, French noblewomansource
  • 1122Ottokar II, margrave of Styriasource
  • 1231Valdemar the Young, king of Denmarksource
  • 1261Al-Mustansir II, Abbasid ruler (caliph) of Cairo, killedsource
  • 1274Philip of Castile, son of Ferdinand III (born 1231)source
  • 1290Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, dies while traveling in the North. She has been suffering from illness for some time, and the cold and dampness of the winter months probably aggravate her condition.source
  • 1290Eleanor of Castile, queen consort of England (born 1241)source
  • 1476James of the Marches, Franciscan friarsource
  • 1499Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the English House of York (born 1475)source
  • 1499Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.source
  • 1514Hartmann Schedel, German cartographer (born 1440)source
  • 1680Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (born 1598)source
  • 1694Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (born 1644)source
  • 1698Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France (born 1622)source
  • 1763Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (born 1734)source
  • 1780Esther Wheelwright, mother superior for Quebec Ursulinessource
  • 1794Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (born 1730)source
  • 1859Washington Irving, American author (born 1783)source
  • 1865José Manuel Pareja (born 1813)source
  • 1872Mary Somerville, British mathematician (born 1780)source
  • 1887Gustav Fechner, German experimental psychologist (born 1801)source
  • 1893Talbot Baines Reed, English author (born 1852)source
  • 1921`Abdu'l-Bahá, head of the Baháʼí Faith (born 1844)source
  • 1930Mona Rudao, Seediq chiefsource
  • 1939James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (born 1861)source
  • 1954Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)source
  • 1960Richard Wright, American novelist (born 1908)source
  • 1968Enid Blyton, English writer (born 1897)source
  • 1994Jeffrey Dahmer, 34, American serial killer and sex offender, beaten to death.source