Historical Events
Execution of Olympe de Gouges
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
Famous Birthdays
Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836)
Nov 3 Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in Austinville, Virginia
- 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)
- Nov 28 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1866)
Famous Deaths
Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793)
Nov 3 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)
