Historical Events In November - 17
Sunday, 28 June 2026
0284 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers 

0331 Flavius Claudius Julianus, [Julian the Apostate], emperor. 

0375 Valentinianus I, co-emperor of E Roman Empire (336-75), dies at ñ54 

0473 The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I. 

0474 Leo II, Byzantine Emperor (474), dies 

0594 Gregorius van Tours, Frankisch bishop of Tours, dies 

0885 Queen Liutgard 

1093 Margaret, widow of Scottish king Malcolm III, dies 

1183 Battle of Mizushima. 

1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins. 

1292 (O.S.) John Balliol is recorded as becoming King of Scotland. 

1503 Il Bronzino, Florentine painter (Eleanor de Toledo and her Son) 

1511 England and Spain sign anti-French covenant 

1512 Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered 

1555 William of Orange is recorded as becoming member of Council of State. 

1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary. 

1558 Mary I Tudor, "Bloody Mary", queen of England (1553-58), dies at 42. 

1594 Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer (Treasure of Health). 

1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. 

1608 Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22. 

1648 Thomas Ford, composer, dies 

1659 Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain. 

1665 John Earle, English bishop 

1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist 

1704 Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet 

1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted. 

1745 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, accompanied by pipers, entered Carlysle following the surrender of the city to the Jacobite Army. 

1747 Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79 

1755 Louis XVIII, 1st post-revolutionary king of France (1814-24). 

1768 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st duke of Newcastle, dies at 75. 

1770 Gian Francesco de Majo, composer, dies at 38. 

1771 Jonathan Huntington, composer. 

1785 Church of England organizes in New England 

1787 Michele Carafa, composer. 

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