On this day in history: 11th November: 308 - The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul. 887 - Parliament in Tribur: King Charles III resigns 1158 - Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy 1208 - Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king 1215 - 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome 1417 - Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V 1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Saba 1500 - Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide Naples 1503 - Pope Julius II elected 1572 - Duke of Alvas son Don Fredrik begins siege for Haarlem 1606 - Turkey & Austria sign Treaty of Zsitva-Torok 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery. 1640 - Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed. 1647 - Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law 1648 - Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands 1671 - Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine 1673 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used. 1675 - Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function. 1688 - Prince Willem IIIs invasion fleet sails to England 1724 - Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking Thief-Taker General (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. (b. c. 1700) 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army enters England 1752 - Theresianische Military Academy opens in Vienna 1790 - Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China 1805 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein - 8000 French troops attempted to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force. 1811 - Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain 1813 - Dresden surrenders to allied armies 1836 - Chile declares war on Bolivia & Peru 1865 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company. 1880 - Australian Bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol 1887 - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham. 1896 - Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgiums minister of War 1905 - High Commissioner Prince George declares amnesty for all leaders of the insurrection that has been disturbing Crete during the recent months - but which never gained mass supprt 1911 - Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control 1918 - Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution 1918 - Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates 1918 - Poland declares independence 1918 - Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, WW I hostilities end at 11.00 am 1919 - Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views 1923 - Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph 1925 - Night of Kersten - Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement 1925 - Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays 1928 - Frances 5th government of Poincaré forms 1937 - Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 kph 1937 - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C J Davisson & GP Thomson 1938 - German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi 1938 - Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David 1940 - Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier 1940 - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet 1941 - Czech premier general Elias arrested by nazis 1942 - -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad 1942 - 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz 1942 - During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France 1942 - Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David 1942 - Transport nr 45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:00:00 +0000