Events on Nov 1

• 0079Pompei buried by Mt Vesuvius
• 09961st use of name "Austria" for Ostarrichi / in oorkonde
• 1210King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
• 1248Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German Emperor
• 1349Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
• 1462Archduke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna
• 1570Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed
• 1623Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings
• 1628French King Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle
• 1671French King Louis XIV and RC German Emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
• 1721Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself
• 1755Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000
• 1765Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies
• 1776Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California
• 1784Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents
• 17871st free school in NYC (African Free School) opens
• 18001st President to live in White House (John Adams)
• 18341st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
• 1849Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
• 1861Gen George B McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
• 1863Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops
• 1865Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
• 18661st Civil Rights Bill passes
• 1867"Harpers Bazaar" publishes
• 1869Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
• 1870US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
• 1876King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
• 1877Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
• 1878Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)
• 1885Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei

Born on Nov 1

• 0846Louis II [the Stutterer]: King of France (877-79)
• 1500Benvenuto Cellini: Sculptor / goldsmith / author (Perseus)
• 1618Johannes Flittner: Composer
• 1666James Sherard: Composer
• 1731Theodore-Jean Tarade: Composer
• 1748Christoph Rheineck: Composer
• 1757Antonio Canova: Italian sculptor
• 1761Antonin Josef Alois Volanek: Composer
• 1762Spencer Perceval: (Tory), British Prime Minister (1809-12)
• 1782Viscount Goderich: (Tory), British Prime Minister (1827-28)
• 1798Benjamin Lee: Baronet Guinness, United Kingdom -- Irish brewer / Dublin Mayor
• 1805Alessandro Nini: Composer
• 1815Crawford Williamson Long: Surgeon / pioneer (use of ether)
• 1815Douglas Hancock Cooper: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
• 1825Joseph Benjamin Palmer: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
• 1832Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen: Composer
• 1835Godfrey Weitzel: (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1884)
• 1853Jose Santos Zelaya: (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
• 1855Guido Adler: Austria -- Musicologist (Still in the Music)
• 1859Charles Brantley Aycock: (Gov-North Carolina)
• 1859William Henry Grattan Flood: Composer
• 1862Johan Wagenaar: Dutch composer / conductor / Organist (Cyrano)
• 1863Alfred Reisenauer: Composer
• 1871Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan: Composer
• 1871Stephen Crane: United States -- Novelist / poet (Red Badge of Courage)
• 1877Roger Quilter: British composer
• 1878Carlos Saavedra Lamas: Argentina -- Jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936)
• 1879Pal Teleki-von Szek: Geographer / Premier Hungary (1920-21, 39-41)
• 1880Alfred L Wegener: German meteorologist (continental shift)
• 1880Grantland Rice: Sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)

Died on Nov 1

• 1546Giulio Romano: Italian Painter / Architect (Ondergang der Titanen)
• 1672Heinrich Schutz: Composer, dies at 87
• 1700Carlos II: King of Spain (1665-1700), dies at 39
• 1711Christian Demelius: Composer, dies at 68
• 1750Gustaaf W van Imhoff: Dutch Governor of Ceylon (1736-40), dies at 45
• 1768Pierre van Maldere: Composer, dies at 39
• 1788Johann Samuel Schroeter: Composer
• 1810Georg Anton Kreusser: Composer, dies at 64
• 1817Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti: Composer, dies at 79
• 1825Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa: Composer, dies at 49
• 1841Antoine PFGdV Celles: Belgium / Dutch / French MP
• 1844August Ferdinand Haeser: Composer, dies at 45
• 1881Jacques F H Perk: Dutch Poet (Iris), dies at 22
• 1891John A Neuhuys: Painter, dies at 59
• 1894Aleksandr III A Romanov: Czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49
• 1895Aleksander Zarzycki: Composer, dies at 61
• 1903[Christian M] Theodor Mommsen: German Historian (Nobel 1902)
• 1907Alfred Jarry: Writer, dies at 33
• 1914Christopher "Kit" Cradock: English Admiral, dies in battle
• 1926Louis H Chrispijn: Dutch actor / director (Krates), dies at 72
• 1927Florence Mills: Dancer / singer, dies in New York City at 32
• 1941Camille Melloy [the Paepe]: Belgian priest / Poet (Requiem), dies at 50
• 1942Hugo Distler: Composer, dies at 34
• 1950Griselio Torresola: Attempted to assassinate President Truman, shot dead
• 1955W H van Eemlandt [Haasse]: Author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel)
• 1956Lajos Asztalos: International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
• 1959Gershon Agron: Mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
• 1961Alexander Cohen: Dutch anarchist / author, dies at 97
• 1961Joan McCracken: Actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
• 1962Winter Haynes Watts: Composer, dies at 78

Historical events on November 2

• 0676Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
• 1355English invasion army under King Edward lands at Calais
• 1418Utrecht conquerors Ijsselstein
• 1532Zealand / South Holland flooded
• 16422nd battle at Breitenfeld Saksen: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
• 164812,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol Podlia
• 1722Willem KH Friso (11) appointed Viceroy of Gelderland
• 1749English Ohio Trade Company forms 1st trade post
• 1772Boston: anti-English Committee of Correspondence forms
• 1783Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
• 1811Battle of Tippecanoe: General Jackson vs. indians
• 1813Treaty of Fulda
• 1824Popular presidential vote 1st recorded; Jackson beats J Q Adams
• 18352nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
• 1841Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
• 1851Louis Napoleon takes power in France
• 1852Franklin Pierce elected as President of US
• 1854Cobblestone paving of Washington St. between Dupont and Kearny starts
• 1879In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
• 1880James A Garfield (R) elected President
• 1881Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
• 1889North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state
• 1892Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
• 1898French government-Dupuy forms
• 1898Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
• 1899Boers begin siege of Ladysmith Natal
• 1903Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St, New York City
• 1903New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St, New York City
• 1904British newspaper, "Daily Mirror, " begins publishing
• 1907Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published

Born on November 2

• 1528Peter S Lotichius [Peter Lotz]: Neo latin poet (Collected Works)
• 1739Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Composer
• 1741Joan Derk van Capellen: Leader of the Netherlands Democratic Patriots
• 1755Marie-Antoinette: Queen of France, let them eat cake
• 1785Frederic Kalkbrenner: Composer
• 1785Johann Leopold Fuchs: Composer
• 1795James Knox Polk: North Carolina, United States -- 11th President (D) (1845-1849)
• 1810Andrew Atkinson Humphreys: Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
• 1815George Boole: Mathematician (Boolean algebra)
• 1822James Byron Gordon: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
• 1826Robert Hopkins Hatton: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
• 1826William Haines Lytle: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
• 1828Byron Grimes: Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
• 1842Otto Reubke: Composer
• 1843Caryl Florio: Composer
• 1843Elek Erkel: Composer
• 1843William James Robjohn: Composer
• 1846Antonio Pena y Goni: Composer
• 1847George Sorel: French Socialist thinker / author (violent revolutions)
• 1857Joseph F F Babinski: Polish / French neurologist (Babinski reflex)
• 1865Warren Gamaliel Harding: Ohio, United States -- (R) 29th President (1921-23)
• 1876Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa: Composer
• 1877Claire McDowell: NYC, New York -- Actress (Big Parade)
• 1880John Foulds: Composer
• 1882Leo Perutz: Writer
• 1883Frico Kafenda: Composer
• 1885Harlow Shapley: United States -- Astronomer (studied the galaxies)
• 1886Philip Merivale: Rehutia, India -- Actor (Nothing But Trouble)
• 1890Henry Borginon: Flemish nationalist / senator
• 1892Alice Brady: NYC, New York -- Actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia)

Died on November 2

• 1171Baudouin IV: Count of Henegouwen (1120-71)
• 1171Dionysius bar Salibi: Author (Diarbekir)
• 1483Henry Stafford: Earl of Buckingham / constable of Engl, beheaded at 49
• 1588Wilhelmus Damasi: Theologist / 1st Bishop of Roermond, dies at 63
• 1610Richard Bancroft: Archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66
• 1635Aurelio Signoretti: Composer, dies at 68
• 1697Constantine Huygens, Jr.: Poet / Painter / cartoonist, buried
• 1717Johann Jacob Walther: Composer
• 1731Johann Matthias Leffloth: Composer, dies at 26
• 1781Jose F de Isla: Spanish Jesuit / author, dies at 78
• 1804Armand-Gaston Camus: French Chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64
• 1845Chretien Urhan: Composer, dies at 55
• 1870William F Brantly: Confederate, murdered at about 40
• 1875JWW Birch: 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered
• 1882Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques: Composer, dies at 61
• 1884Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil: Composer, dies at 62
• 1887Jenny Lind [Swedish Nightingale]: Soprano, dies at 67
• 1909Theodor W Ahlwardt: German orientalist, dies at 81
• 1925Antonius J Derkinderen: Dutch Painter / etcher, dies at 65
• 1931Arthur James Cook: Union leader (coal miners), dies at 47
• 1937Maude Valerie White: Composer, dies at 82
• 1950George Bernard Shaw: Irish Author (Pygmalion), dies at 94
• 1956Jacob Weinberg: Composer, dies at 77
• 1956Leo Baeck: President of World Union for Progressive Judaism, dies at 83
• 1958Adam von Ahn Carse: Composer, dies at 80
• 1960Dimitri Mitropoulos: Greek / US conductor / composer, dies at 64
• 1961James Thurber: Humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66
• 1962Felice Lattuada: Composer, dies at 80
• 1966Mississippi John Hurt: Rocker, dies at 73
• 1966Sadao Araki: Japanese General / Minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89

Events on Nov 3

• 0644Kalief Omar I injured during assassination attempt
• 1394Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
• 1527Ferdinand of Austria / Bohemia chosen as King of Hungary
• 1529London: 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
• 1534English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
• 1620Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
• 1629Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
• 1640English Long Parliament forms
• 1655England and France sign miltary and economic treaties
• 1679Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
• 1760Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
• 1762England and Spain signs Treaty of Paris
• 1762Spain acquires Louisiana
• 1783Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
• 1791Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St. Clair / killed 637 soldiers
• 1794French troops conquer Maastricht
• 1796John Adams elected President
• 1813US troops under General Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala
• 1820Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
• 18391st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
• 1848Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force
• 1862Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
• 1862Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)
• 1863Battle of Grand Coteau, Georgia
• 1867Battle at Mentana: French / pontifical troops beat Garibaldi
• 18681st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
• 1868Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
• 1871Henry M Stanley in Tanganyka say "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
• 1874James Theodore Holly, elected Bishop of Haiti
• 1883Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)

Born on Nov 3

• 0039Lucan: Cordova, Spain -- Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
• 1470Edward V: King of England (April 9th - June 25th, 1483)
• 1604Osman II: Sultan of Turkey (1618-22)
• 1611Henry Ireton: English General / MP (Edgehill)
• 1618Aurangzeb [Alamgir]: Emperor of India (1658-1707)
• 1619Willem Kalf: Rotterdam, Netherlands -- Painter (still lifes)
• 1656Georg Reuter: Composer
• 1689Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner: Composer
• 1736Christian Brunings: Dutch hydraulic engineer
• 1753August G Meissner: German author
• 1753Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz: Composer
• 1780Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen: Composer
• 1781Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank: Composer
• 1793Stephen Fuller Austin: Colonized Texas
• 1794William Cullen Bryant: Poet (Thanatopsis)
• 1798Mason James Murray: (Confederacy), died in 1871
• 1801Karl Baedeker: Germany -- Published travel books
• 1801Vincenzo Bellini: Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
• 1815Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu: Composer
• 1816Jubal Anderson Early: Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
• 1818Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
• 1826Jasper Adalmorn Maltby: Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
• 1830John Esten Cooke: (Confederate Army), died in 1886
• 1830Jacob M van Bemmelen: Dutch physicist / chemist
• 1833Edward Dorr Tracy: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
• 1844Mehmed V Reshad: Sultan of Turkey (1909-18)
• 1852Mutsuhito: 122nd Emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
• 1857Michail V Aleksejev: Russian General (WWI-Chief of Staff)
• 1861Johann Peter Kirsch: Luxembourg -- Church historian / archaeologist
• 1863Eugene Samuel-Holeman: Composer

Died on Nov 3

• 0361Flavius Julius Constantius II: 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44
• 1254Johannes III Doukas Vatatzes: Byzantine Emperor (1222-54) / saint
• 1344Adolf van der Mark: Prince-bishop of Liege (1313-44), dies at 56
• 1378Jan II: Ruler of Polanen / Leck / Breda
• 1456Edmund Turdor: Earl of Richmond
• 1639Martinus de Porres: Peru Saint (patron of social justice), dies at 69
• 1711Ferdinand Tobias Richter: Composer, dies at 60
• 1803Henri Moreau: Composer, dies at 75
• 1832Pietro Generali: Composer, dies at 59
• 1845Johan G Verstolk van Soelen: Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, dies at 69
• 1867Pieter J Jong: Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
• 1904Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette: Composer, dies at 57
• 1911Salvador Giner y Vidal: Composer, dies at 79
• 1913Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf: Composer, dies at 83
• 1926Annie Oakley: US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
• 1931Rudolf W Canne: Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
• 1936Filip Lazar: Composer, dies at 42
• 1942Carl Sternheim: German playwright (Trousers, Snob), dies at 64
• 1945Alessandro Longo: Composer, dies at 80
• 1949Solomon R Guggenheim: US art collector, dies at 88
• 1954Henri E B Matisse: French Painter / Sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
• 1957Wilhelm Reich: Austria / US psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60
• 1958Harry Revel: Movie Composer (Sitting Pretty, Gay Divorcee)
• 1959Friedrich Niggli: Composer, dies at 83
• 1962Harlow H Curtice: President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
• 1970Peter II Karadjordjevic: Last King of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57
• 1973Arturo De Cordova: Actor (This Strange Passion), dies at 65
• 1977Florence Vidor: Actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82
• 1980Ludwig Hohl: Writer
• 1982Edward H Carr: British historian, dies at 90