Historical Events In November - 30
Wednesday, 25 March 2026
0306 In this year, St Marcellus I starts his reign as Catholic Pope 

0538 St Gregory of Tours, chronicler/bishop. 

0722 Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop. 

1016 England's Ethelred II dies at age 48 after a 38-year reign and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside, who is chosen king by Londoners, while Canute is chosen by the witan at Southampton. 

1016 Edmund II, Ironsides, King of Saxons (1016), dies at 27. 

1215 Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen. 

1292 Coronation of John Balliol, the last recorded inauguration of a King of Scots on the Stone of Destiny. 

1340 John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector 

1373 Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily 

1406 Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII 

1427 Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92). 

1466 Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral 

1485 Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess. 

1508 Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect. 

1519 Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85 

1523 Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics. 

1528 Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 

1554 England reconciles with Pope Julius III. 

1554 Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia) 

1580 Richard Farrant, English composer 

1593 Johann Dilliger, composer. 

1622 Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized 

1626 Thomas Weelkes, English composer. 

1630 16000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague. 

1631 Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies. 

1634 Andres de Sola, composer 

1645 Andreas Werkmeister, composer 

1646 John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45. 

1648 English army captures King Charles I. 

1652 Dutch defeat English fleet off Dungeness, England. 

1667 Jonathan Swift, Engl, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal). 

1678 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament 

1678 Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67 

1679 Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45. 

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