WHAT HAPPENED ON 5. NOVEMBER
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Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. (5. November 1138)

Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. (5. November 1499)

The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands. (5. November 1530)

Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested. (5. November 1605)

William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham, Southwest England. (5. November 1688)

Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach. (5. November 1757)

Treaty of Fort Stanwix, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies. (5. November 1768)

French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. (5. November 1780)

Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rang the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement. (5. November 1811)

Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia. (5. November 1831)

The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation. (5. November 1838)

Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman. (5. November 1854)

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time. (5. November 1862)

American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved. (5. November 1862)

Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. (5. November 1872)

George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. (5. November 1895)

After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica. (5. November 1911)

Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States. (5. November 1912)

King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. (5. November 1913)

World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire. (5. November 1914)