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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 11th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 11, 1620, while anchored in Provincetown Harbor (off Cape Cod), the male passengers of the Mayflower wrote and signed a document known as The Mayflower Compact. On November 11, 1673, General Jan Sobieski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth successfully used military rockets designed by Kazimierz Siemienowicz in the Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, helping to defeat Ottoman forces. On…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 10th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 10, 1202, despite letters from Pope Innocent III (a much more popular pope than Guilty III) forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders on the Fourth Crusade began a siege of the Catholic city of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia). On November 10, 1580, another chapter in the long, sorry story of the troubled relationship between the English and the Irish…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 9th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 9, 694, the Seventeenth Council of Toledo opened, a third round ordered by Egica, King of the Visigoths (Spain), a council of Bishops of the Christian Church. On November 9, 1913, The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the North American lakes, destroyed 19 ships and killed more than 250 people. On November…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 8th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 8, 1520, the Stockholm Bloodbath began, an event that followed the successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces and resulted in the execution of around 100 people. On November 8, 1837, Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. On November 8, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen (or Röntgen) discovered what…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 7th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 7, 921, the Treaty of Bonn was signed by two Frankish kings, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler. On November 7, 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus made his epic voyage to the New World, a large meteor fell on the town of Ensisheim, Alsace, Austria, in what is now France. On November 7, 1775, in an announcement…