Events in History
Historic Event
Nov 3 French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
Nov 26 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
Birthdays in History
Stephen F. Austin
Nov 3 Stephen F. Austin, Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in Austinville, Virginia (d. 1836)
Deaths in History
Olympe de Gouges
Nov 3 Olympe de Gouges [Marie Gouze], French playwright and revolutionary (Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen), executed by guillotine at 45
- Nov 6 Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, dies at 46
- Nov 8 Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
- Nov 12 Jean-Sylvain Bailly, French Statesman, astronomer (computed orbit for Halley’s Comet (1759), and author, guillotined during the Reign of Terror at 57
- Nov 24 Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)