Events in History
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Nov 3 French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined

Olympe de Gouges
- Nov 10 France ends forced worship of God
- Nov 12 The 1st Mayor of Paris, Jean Sylvain Bailly, is guillotined during the Reign of Terror
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
Nov 26 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
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Stephen F. Austin
Nov 3 Stephen F. Austin, Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in Austinville, Virginia (d. 1836)

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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

Olympe de Gouges
- 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 astronomer noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley’s Comet (1759) and author of History of Ancient Astronomy from Its Origin to the Establishment of the School of Alexandria, guillotined during the Reign of Terror at 57
- Nov 24 Clément Charles François de Laverdy, French statesman (b. 1723)