Saturday, November 15, 2025
Today: 1533: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire. 1777: The Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. 1806: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a distant mountain peak in Colorado, later named Pikes Peak. 1864: Union General William T. Sherman’s troops begin to burn Atlanta’s industrial district, […]
Friday, November 14, 2025
Today: 565: Byzantine Emperor Justinian I died. 1832: The first horse-drawn streetcar service began operations in New York City. 1851: Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick was published in the United States. 1889: Journalist Nellie Bly set out to travel around the world in under 80 days, a feat she completed in 72 days. 1910: Aviator Eugene […]
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Today: 1002: English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known as the St. Brice’s Day massacre. 1093: Malcolm III of Scotland and his son Edward are killed at the Battle of Alnwick. 1775: American Revolutionary War forces under General Richard Montgomery capture Montreal. 1887: Protests in London’s Trafalgar Square lead […]
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Today: 1035: Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, England, and Norway, dies. 1439: Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament. 1799: Andrew Ellicott witnesses the Leonids meteor shower, which is the first known record of such an event in North America. 1892: William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first-ever professional American football […]
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Today: 1620: The Mayflower Compact was signed by 41 male Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in Provincetown Harbor. 1831: Nat Turner, the leader of a slave rebellion, was hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia. 1880: Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly was hanged in Melbourne. 1889: Washington was admitted as the 42nd state of the United States. 1918: […]
Monday, November 10, 2025
Today: 1444: The Battle of Varna ends as forces of the Ottoman Empire defeat the Polish and Hungarian armies. 1674: The Netherlands formally cedes New Netherland to England as part of the Treaty of Westminster. 1775: The United States Marine Corps is founded in Philadelphia during the American Revolution. 1871: Journalist Henry Morton Stanley locates […]
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Today: 1620: The Mayflower, carrying Pilgrims, first spotted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 1791: The Society of United Irishmen was founded in Dublin. 1862: General Ambrose Burnside was appointed to replace George McClellan as commander of the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. 1872: The Great Boston Fire began, ultimately destroying […]
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Today: 1519: Hernán Cortés enters the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, where he is received by Montezuma II. 1602: The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public. 1793: The Louvre Museum is opened to the public in Paris during the French Revolution. 1837: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which would later become […]
Friday, November 7, 2025
Today: 1492: The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest recorded meteorite impact, strikes a wheat field in Alsace, France. 1659: The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed, ending the Franco-Spanish War. 1665: The London Gazette, the oldest continuously published English newspaper, is first published. 1811: U.S. forces led by William Henry Harrison defeat Shawnee forces in the […]
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Today: 447: A powerful earthquake heavily damages the Walls of Constantinople. 1429: Henry VI is crowned King of England in London at eight years old. 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States. 1861: Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederate States of America. […]