WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. NOVEMBER
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Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople. (7. November 335)

The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople. (7. November 680)

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, Viet Nam. (7. November 1426)

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. (7. November 1492)

Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia. (7. November 1619)

The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. (7. November 1665)

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. (7. November 1775)

The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society. (7. November 1786)

Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States. (7. November 1811)

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. (7. November 1837)

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. (7. November 1861)

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. (7. November 1874)

The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia. (7. November 1885)

Women's Suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so. (7. November 1893)

Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses. (7. November 1900)

Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University. (7. November 1907)

Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode. (7. November 1907)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. (7. November 1908)

The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. (7. November 1910)

The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio. (7. November 1912)

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