On this day: 13 November

Years ago today

Events · 26

• 1002(Julian date)
  St. Brice's Day massacre — killing of most Danish people in England in 1002
• 1093(Julian date)
  Battle of Alnwick — 1093 battle
• 1642
  Battle of Turnham Green — 1642 battle of the First English Civil War
• 1715
  Battle of Sheriffmuir — battle at the height of the 1715 Jacobite Rising in England and Scotland
• 1851
  Seattle — city in and county seat of King County, State of Washington, United States
• 1864
  Battle of Bull's Gap — battle of the American Civil War
• 1887
  Bloody Sunday — 1887 protest against the Conservative government under Lord Salisbury in London
• 1893
  13 November 1893 stabbing — anarchist attack
• 1914
  Battle of el-Hri — battle against French protectorate of Morocco, 1914
• 1918
  occupation of Istanbul — Allied occupation of Constantinople after WWI
• 1938
  1938 Changsha Fire — Fire during the Sino-Japanese War
• 1942
  Naval Battle of Guadalcanal — 1942 naval battle
• 1966
  Samu Incident — 1966 cross-border assault by the Israeli military on the village of Samu
• 1966
  All Nippon Airways Flight 533 — aviation accident
• 1967
  UFOs of Pudasjärvi — Finnish UFO sightings between 1960s and 1970s
• 1982
  Vietnam Veterans Memorial — US national memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 1985
  Armero tragedy — November 1985 volcanic eruption in Colombia
• 1990
  Aramoana massacre — 1990 shooting spree in New Zealand
• 1991
  Karelia — first-level administrative division of Russia
• 1993
  China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 — 1993 aviation accident
• 1994
  1994 Swedish European Union membership referendum — referendum in Sweden on 13 November 1994 regarding possible Swedish EU membership
• 1995
  Nigeria Airways Flight 357 — air accident in Nigeria
• 2012
  solar eclipse of November 13, 2012 — total solar eclipse took place on 13–14 November 2012
• 2015
  November 2015 Paris attacks — series of terrorist attacks in Paris, France, Europe, on November 13, 2015
• 2022
  2022 Istanbul bombing — explosion in Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 November 2022
• 2022
  2022 University of Idaho Massacre — death of four students at the University of Idaho on November 13, 2022

Births · 60

• 354(Julian date)
  Augustine of Hippo — Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)
• 1312(Julian date)
  Edward III of England — King of England from 1327 to 1377
• 1504(Julian date)
  Philip I of Hesse — Landgrave of Hesse
• 1559(Julian date)
  Albert VII, Archduke of Austria — Austrian cardinal and governor of the Netherlands (1559-1621)
• 1572(Julian date)
  Cyril Lucaris — Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1715
  Dorothea Christiane Erxleben — physician (1715–1762)
• 1760
  Jiaqing Emperor — Chinese emperor (1760-1820) of the Qing dynasty
• 1780
  Ranjit Singh — First Maharaja of the Sikh Empire (1780–1839)
• 1782
  Esaias Tegnér — Swedish poet, professor and bishop (1782–1846)
• 1801
  Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria — Prussian queen consort (1801-1873)
• 1814
  Joseph Hooker — American Union Army general (1814–1879)
• 1848
  Albert I, Prince of Monaco — Prince of Monaco (1848-1922)
• 1850
  Robert Louis Stevenson — Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)
• 1856
  Louis Brandeis — American Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)
• 1893
  Edward Adelbert Doisy — American biochemist (1893-1986)
• 1894
  Arthur Nebe — German police officer (1894-1945)
• 1896
  Nobusuke Kishi — 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan (1896–1987)
• 1899
  Huang Xianfan — Chinese historian, ethnologist and educator (1899-1982)
• 1899
  Iskandar Ali Mirza — Pakistani politician, statesman and military general (1899–1969)
• 1906
  Empress Wanrong — wife of Puyi, Empress of China (1906-1946)
• 1906
  Hermione Baddeley — British character actress of theatre, film and television (1906-1986)
• 1913
  Lon Nol — Cambodian Field Marshal (1913-1985)
• 1914
  Alberto Lattuada — Italian film director (1914–2005)
• 1920
  Jack Elam — American actor (1920–2003)
• 1922
  Oskar Werner — actor (1922-1984)

Deaths · 60

• 867(Julian date)
  Nicholas I — pope
• 1004(Julian date)
  Abbo of Fleury — monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey (c.945-1004)
• 1093(Julian date)
  Malcolm III of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1058 to 1093
• 1143(Julian date)
  Fulk, King of Jerusalem — Count of Anjou (r. 1109-1129) and the King of Jerusalem (r.1131-1143)
• 1154(Julian date)
  Iziaslav II of Kiev — grand prince of Kiev (1097-1154)
• 1175(Julian date)
  Henry of France, Archbishop of Reims — French archbishop of Reims from 1161 to 1175
• 1319(Julian date)
  Eric VI of Denmark — King of Denmark
• 1359(Julian date)
  Ivan II of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow (1326-1359)
• 1440(Julian date)
  Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland — English countess
• 1460
  Prince Henry the Navigator — Portuguese prince and governor (1394–1460)
• 1502(Julian date)
  Annius of Viterbo — Italian friar, scholar, historian and forger (1437–1502)
• 1587
  Hai Rui — Chinese politician (1514-1587)
• 1619
  Ludovico Carracci — Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1555-1619)
• 1726
  Sophia Dorothea of Celle — wife of George I of Great Britain (1666-1726)
• 1770
  George Grenville — Prime Minister of Great Britain (1712-1770)
• 1771
  Konrad Ernst Ackermann — German actor
• 1862
  Ludwig Uhland — German poet and politician (1787–1862)
• 1868
  Gioachino Rossini — Italian opera composer (1792–1868)
• 1883
  J. Marion Sims — American physician and gynecologist (1813-1883)
• 1890
  John Francis Davis — 2nd Governor of Hong Kong (1795–1890)
• 1903
  Camille Pissarro — Danish-French painter (1830-1903)
• 1921
  Ignaz Goldziher — Hungarian orientalist, scholar (1850-1921)
• 1929
  Princess Viktoria of Prussia — Prussian princess (1866-1929)
• 1932
  Francisco Lagos Cházaro — President of Mexico (1878–1932)
• 1935
  Sun Chuanfang — Chinese politician (1885-1935)