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This Day in History
Today: November 7, 2026
335
Athanasius, 20th pope of Alexandria, is banished to Trier on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
680
The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
921
Treaty of Bonn: The Frankish kings Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler sign a peace treaty or 'pact of friendship' (<span about="#mwt13" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"lang","href":"./Template:Lang"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"la"},"2":{"wt":"[[friendship|amicitia]]"}},"i":0}}]}' id="...
1426
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1492
The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1504
Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.[1]
1619
Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia.
1665
The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1723
O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, a dialogue cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for Leipzig, was first performed.[2]
1775
John Murray (also known as Lord Dunmore), 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 to fight with Murray and the Brit...
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