Events on 5 November 40
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Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
Year 1499
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.
Year 1757
Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
Year 1768
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.
Year 1780
French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
Year 1811
Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
Year 1828
Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
Year 1831
Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
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