Historical Events In November - 26
Saturday, 04 April 2026
0399 St Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope 

0399 Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies 

0579 In this year, Pelagius II starts his reign as Catholic Pope 

0666 Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665) 

0783 The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. 

1126 Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated 

1240 Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies. 

1267 Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies 

1476 Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and is recorded as becoming the ruler of Wallachia for the third time 

1527 Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I. 

1580 French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty 

1598 Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java. 

1607 John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ. 

1621 Radulph Agas, English surveyor (C. 1540). 

1640 Carl Rosier, composer 

1648 Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen. 

1651 Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 

1653 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer 

1653 Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51. 

1663 Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas). 

1688 Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg. 

1688 Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53. 

1702 Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter". 

1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships 

1703 -27] Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed. 

1716 The inaugural lion exhibited in America (Boston) 

1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston). 

1731 William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]. 

1736 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France) 

1741 French and Beiers army occupies Prague 

1744 Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer 

1754 Georg Forster, writer. 

1764 France bans Jesuit enorde 

1776 Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies. 

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