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The following events took place on November 23. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 51 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 534 BC

  Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
• 1174

  Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
• 1248

  Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
• 1499

  Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
• 1510

  First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
• 1531

  The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
• 1644

  John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
• 1733

  The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
• 1808

  French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela.
• 1810

  Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
• 1863

  American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
• 1867

  The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
• 1876

  Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
• 1889

  The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
• 1890

  King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
• 1910

  Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
• 1914

  Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
• 1918

  Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• 1924

  Edwin Hubble’s scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.citation needed date=November 2014
• 1934

  An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• 1936

  Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
• 1939

  World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships German battleship Scharnhorst and German battleship Gneisenau.
• 1940

  World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
• 1943

  World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• 1943

  World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
• 1946

  French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
• 1955

  The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia.
• 1959

  French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for “Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals”.
• 1963

  The BBC broadcasts “An Unearthly Child” (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the science-fiction television serial of the same name and the first episode of Doctor Who, which is now the world’s longest running science fiction drama.
• 1971

  Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.

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