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On November 24, 380: Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

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Featured moment · 380

Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

Theodosius I, also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. He won two civil wars and was instrumental in establishing the Nicene Creed as the orthodox doctrine for Nicene Christianity. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule the entire Roman Empire.

People

Born on November 24

Jeremy Swayman 1998– American ice hockey player (born 1998)
Marcus Bontempelli 1995– Australian rules footballer
Nabil Bentaleb 1994– Algerian footballer (born 1994)
Ivi Adamou 1993– Greek Cypriot singer (born 1993)
Joe Pigott 1993– English footballer (born 1993)
Sergei Kulbach 1992– Ukrainian pair skater (1992–2023)
Mario Gaspar 1990– Spanish footballer (born 1990)
Sarah Hyland 1990– American actress and singer (born 1990)
Tom Odell 1990– British singer-songwriter (born 1990)
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Michael Oldfield 1990– Tonga international rugby league footballer
Jarrod Parker 1988– American baseball player (born 1988)
Asim Chaudhry 1986– British comedian and actor (born 1986)
Jimmy Graham 1986– American football player (born 1986)
Pedro León 1986– Spanish footballer (born 1986)
Julia Alexandratou 1985– Musical artist
David Booth 1984– American ice hockey player (born 1984)
Maria Höfl-Riesch 1984– German alpine skier (born 1984)
Dean Ashton 1983– English footballer (born 1983)

People

Died on November 24

Jimmy Cliff Jamaican musician (1944–2025)
Dharmendra Indian actor and politician (1935–2025)
Barbara Taylor Bradford British novelist (1933–2024)
Breyten Breytenbach South African writer and painter (1939–2024)
Helen Gallagher American actress and singer (1926–2024)
Börje Salming Swedish ice hockey player (1951–2022)
Goo Hara South Korean singer and actress (1991–2019)
Paul Futcher English footballer (1956–2016)
Florence Henderson American actress (1934–2016)
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Robert Ford British general (1923–2015)
John Forrester British philosopher (1949–2015)
Quincy Monk American football player (1979–2015)
Heinz Oberhummer Austrian physicist and skeptic (1941–2015)
Douglas W. Shorenstein American lawyer
Jorge Herrera Delgado Mexican politician
Murli Deora Indian politician, Mayor of Mumbai (1937–2014)
Peter Henderson Rugby player
Nenad Manojlović Water polo player and coach, Yeguslavia, Serbia

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Every November 24 on record

  1. 380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

    Roman emperor from 379 to 395

    Theodosius I, also known as Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. He won two civil wars and was instrumental in establishing the Nicene Creed as the orthodox doctrine for Nicene Christianity. Theodosius was the last emperor to rule the entire Roman Empire.

  2. 847 An earthquake hits Syria, causing multiple casualties and damages in Antioch, Damascus and Mosul.

    Earthquake affecting Syria and Lebanon

    The 847 Damascus earthquake occurred in AD 847. Recent scholarship suggests that the earthquake was part of a multiple earthquake stretching from Damascus to the south, to Antioch in the north and to Mosul in the east. There were an estimated 20,000 casualties in Antioch according to the 13th-century historian and writer Al-Dhahabi, and 50,000 in Mosul.

  3. 1190 Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem.

    Italian nobleman and crusader, King of Jerusalem from 1190 to 1192

    Conrad of Montferrat was a nobleman, one of the major participants in the Third Crusade. He was the de facto King of Jerusalem by virtue of his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem from 24 November 1190, but officially elected only in 1192, days before his death. He was also the eighth Marquess of Montferrat from 1191.

  4. 1221 Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.

    Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1206 to 1227

    Genghis Khan, also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes, he launched a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of China and Central Asia.

  5. 1227 Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing.

    1227 massacre of Piast-dynasty dukes in Gąsawa, Poland

    The Gąsawa massacre was an attack on the night of 23-24 November 1227, during a council of Polish Piast dukes that was being held near the village of Gąsawa in Kuyavia, Poland. The High Duke of Poland, Leszek the White, was assassinated, and Duke Henry the Bearded of Silesia was gravely wounded.

  6. 1248 An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages.
  7. 1359 Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates.
  8. 1429 Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.
  9. 1542 Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
  10. 1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
  11. 1750 Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa.
  12. 1832 South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis.
  13. 1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
  14. 1850 Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
  15. 1859 British naturalist Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.
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  1. 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
  2. 1877 Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
  3. 1906 A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.
  4. 1917 In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
  5. 1922 Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
  6. 1929 The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland.
  7. 1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
  8. 1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
  9. 1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
  10. 1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
  11. 1943 World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
  12. 1944 World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
  13. 1962 Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
  14. 1962 The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
  15. 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.

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