WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. NOVEMBER
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Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han. (27. November 25)

Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions. (27. November 176)

Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas. (27. November 395)

King Clovis I dies at Paris ("Lutetia") and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve. The Merovingian Dynasty is continued by his four sons — Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I and Chlothar I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom and rule from the capitals at Metz, Orléans, Paris and Soissons. (27. November 511)

Emperor Maurice is forced to watch his five sons be executed before being beheaded himself; their bodies are thrown into the sea and their heads are exhibited in Constantinople. (27. November 602)

Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont. (27. November 1095)

The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as "The Model Parliament". (27. November 1295)

The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. (27. November 1703)

The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid. (27. November 1727)

The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops. (27. November 1807)

The Berners Street Hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London. (27. November 1810)

Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland. (27. November 1815)

St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands. (27. November 1830)

James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England. (27. November 1835)

In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded. (27. November 1839)

The Coup of 1856 leads to Luxembourg's unilateral adoption of a new, reactionary constitution. (27. November 1856)

American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South. (27. November 1863)

American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee. (27. November 1863)

American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land. (27. November 1868)

German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest. (27. November 1886)