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

Olympe de Gouges — Playwright and Revolutionary Olympe de Gouges

Nov 10 France ends forced worship of God
Nov 12 The 1st Mayor of Paris and astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly, is guillotined during the Reign of Terror

Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar

Nov 26 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France

Pope Gregory XIII with the calendar that was to make his name

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)

Stephen F. Austin — Founder of Texas Stephen F. Austin

Nov 10 Jared Kirtland, American physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1877)
Nov 15 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), born in Épernon, France (d. 1880)
Nov 16 Francis Danby, Irish painter, born in County Wexford, Ireland (d. 1861)

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

Olympe de Gouges — Playwright and Revolutionary 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 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)

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