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On November 1, 365: Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul.
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Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul.
Year 365 (CCCLXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the West as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Valens. The denomination 365 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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365 Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul. Calendar year
Year 365 (CCCLXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the West as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Valens. The denomination 365 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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996 Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German). Holy Roman Emperor from 996 to 1002
Otto III was the Holy Roman emperor and King of Italy from 996 until his death in 1002. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto III was the only son of Emperor Otto II and his wife Theophanu.
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1141 Empress Matilda's reign as "Lady of the English" ends as Stephen of Blois regains the title of "King of England". Holy Roman Empress from 1114 to 1125; claimant to the English throne
Empress Matilda, also known as Empress Maud, was Holy Roman Empress as the consort of Emperor Henry V from 1110 until his death in 1125, and was subsequently a claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. Following the death of her father, King Henry I of England, she asserted her right to the English throne as his only surviving legitimate child and styled herself Lady of the English. However, her cousin Stephen of Blois was crowned king in her place.
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1179 Philip II is crowned King of France. King of France from 1180 to 1223
Philip II, also known as Philip Augustus, was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself "King of France". The only son of King Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne, he was originally nicknamed 'God-given' because he was a first son and born late in his father's life.
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1214 The port city of Sinope surrenders to the Seljuq Turks. Municipality in Turkey on the Black Sea
Sinop is a city on the isthmus of İnce Burun and on the Boztepe Peninsula, near Cape Sinope which is situated on the northernmost edge of the Turkish side of the Black Sea coast, in the ancient region of Paphlagonia, in modern-day northern Turkey. It is the seat of Sinop Province and Sinop District. Its population is 57,404 (2022).
- 1348 The anti-royalist Union of Valencia attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
- 1503 Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere is elected Pope and takes the name Julius II.
- 1512 The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- 1520 The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
- 1555 French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 1570 The All Saints' Flood devastates the Dutch coast.
- 1612 During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.).
- 1683 The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
- 1688 William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland from King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution.
- 1755 In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 people.
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- 1765 The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
- 1790 Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
- 1800 John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
- 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.
- 1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1848 In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1861 American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
- 1870 In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
- 1893 The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
- 1894 Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
- 1894 Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1896 A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- 1897 The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
- 1897 Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
- 1905 Lahti, a city in Finland, is granted city rights by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last Grand Duke of Finland.
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Holidays on November 1
- All Saints' Day, a holy day of obligation in some areas (a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries), and its related observance: Day of the Innocents, The first day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration. (Mexico, Haiti)
- Anniversary of the Revolution (Algeria)
- Chavang Kut (Mizo people of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma)
- Chhattisgarh Rajyotsava (Chhattisgarh, India)
- Christian feast day: Austromoine
- Christian feast day: Benignus of Dijon
- Christian feast day: Caesarius of Africa
- Christian feast day: Santa Muerte (Folk Catholicism, Mexico and Southwestern United States)
- Christian feast day: November 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Coronation of the fifth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Antigua and Barbuda from the United Kingdom in 1981.
- Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka, India)
- Kerala Day (Kerala, India)
- Liberty Day (United States Virgin Islands)
- International Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Awareness Day
- National Brush Day (United States)
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