Events & Holidays In November - 11

Armistice Day (International)

Cutting of the goose in Sursee (LU) (Switzerland)

Feast of St Martin (Sint Maarten / St. Martin)

Gansabhauet, St Martin's Day (Switzerland)

Guru Nanak's Birthday (India)

Independence Day (Angola Poland)

Independence of Cartagena (official) (Colombia)

Lacplesa Day (Latvia)

Martinmas (Scotland)

Mortens Day (Denmark)

Prince of Wales Birthday (Tuvalu)

Remembrance Day (International)

Volkstrauertag (Remembrance Sunday) (Switzerland)

Concordia Day (Sint Maarten / St. Martin)

Veterans Day (Guam Puerto Rico Switzerland United States of America US Virgin Islands)

0995  On this day in history birth of gisela of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1041)   

1050  On this day in history birth of henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)   

1154  On this day in history birth of sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212)   

1155  On this day in history birth of alfonso VIII, the Noble One, king of Castilia   

1220  Alphonse of Toulouse, son of Louis VIII of France (d. 1271) was born on this day in history.   

1493  On this day in history birth of bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)   

1493  On this day in history birth of paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)   

1523  Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician was born on this day in history.   

0307  Flavius Valerius Severus, compassionate emperor of Rome (306-07), dies on this day in history.   

0397  Martinus, (St Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81 on this day in history.   

0405  Death of Arsacius, intruding archbishop of Constantinople on this day in history.   

0511  On this day in history clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45   

0537  Death of Pope Silverius, saint on this day in history.   

0826  Theodore the Studite, Byzantine theologist/poet/saint, dies on this day in history.   

0865  Death of Petronas the Patrician, Byzantine General on this day in history.   

1150  Hartbert, bishop of Utrecht (1140-50), dies on this day in history.