Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 16, 1776 | American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. |
| November 10, 1599 | Åbo Bloodbath: Fourteen gentries who opposed Duke Charles were decapitated in the Old Great Square of Turku (Swedish: Åbo) for their involvement in the power struggle between King Sigismund and Duke Charles and the related peasant revolt known as the Cudgel War. |
| November 11, 2012 | A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people. |
| November 5, 1950 | Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon. |
| November 1, 1894 | Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies. |
| November 16, 1272 | While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne. |
| November 28, 2016 | A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 77 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia. |
| November 22, 1943 | World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. |
| November 26, 1918 | The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. |
| November 2, 1410 | The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War. |
| November 2, 1936 | The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. |
| November 22, 1948 | Chinese Civil War: Elements of the Chinese Communist Second Field Army under Liu Bocheng trap the Nationalist 12th Army, beginning the Shuangduiji Campaign, the largest engagement of the Huaihai Campaign. |
| November 3, 1783 | The American Continental Army is disbanded. |
| November 4, 1847 | Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. |
| November 23, 1991 | Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury announces in a statement that he is HIV-positive. He dies the following day. |
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