November 7 Historical Events

The following events took place on November 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 65 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 335
  Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
• 680
  The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
• 1426
  Lam Sơn uprising: Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army in the Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động taking place in Đông Quan, in now Hanoi.
• 1492
  The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
• 1619
  Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
• 1665
  The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
• 1775
  John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.
• 1786
  The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• 1811
  Tecumseh’s War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States.
• 1837
  In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• 1861
  American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
• 1874
  A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
• 1885
  The completion of Canada’s first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
• 1893
  Women’s suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
• 1900
  Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.

• 1900
  The People’s Party is founded in Cuba.
• 1907
  Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
• 1907
  Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
• 1908
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
• 1910
  The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• 1912
  The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
• 1913
  The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
• 1914
  The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
• 1914
  The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
• 1916
  Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
• 1917
  The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
• 1917
  World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1918
  The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
• 1918
  Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
• 1919
  The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in twenty-three different U.S. cities.