On November 5, history records 40 notable events, 233 famous births and 106 deaths, spanning the years 1138 to 1831.
Events on this day include: Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. (1138); Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. (1499).
Notable people born on November 5 include Ghazan (1271), Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville (1436), Hans Sachs (1494).
Notable figures who died on this day include Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople (425), Fan Zhi (964), Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (1011).
Events on 5 November 40
See all →Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
Birthdays on 5 November 233
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