November 2 in History

The marriage is orchestrated by Henrys father, Henry II, in order to gain control over Marguerites dowry, the strategically vital castles of the Vexin region between Normandy & Paris

The marriage is orchestrated by Henrys father, Henry II, in order to gain control over Marguerites dowry, the strategically vital castles of the Vexin region between Normandy & Paris. Henry the Young King is married to Marguerite of France, daughter of King Louis VII of France by his 2nd wife Constance of Castille, he is 5 yrs of age & she is 2

The marriage is orchestrated by Henrys father, Henry II, in order to gain control over Marguerites dowry, the strategically vital castles of the Vexin region between Normandy & Paris. Henry the Young King is married to Marguerite of France, daughter of King Louis VII of France by his 2nd wife Constance of Castille, he is 5 yrs of age & she is 2

The interior belongs to the Muslims & the coast belongs to the Latins. Peace is concluded between the Crusaders & the Muslims

The interior belongs to the Muslims & the coast belongs to the Latins. Peace is concluded between the Crusaders & the Muslims

The interior will belong to the Muslims while the Latins keep control of the coast

The interior will belong to the Muslims while the Latins keep control of the coast. Richard I & Saladin conclude peace

Lands at the head of an army including his cousin & heir presumptive Roger Mortimer

The Duke of Buckingham is executed by Richard III for instegating a Lancastrian plot

The Duke of Buckingham is executed by Richard III for instegating a Lancastrian plot

Cranmer gives Henry VIII evidence alleging Catherine Howard's misconduct before and after her marriage.

John Gordon is executed after the Huntly rebellion

The Privy Council tell James that they had decided to undertake a search of Parliament, "both above and below"

Charles creates Henry Somerset the first Marquess of Worcester for his Royalist support.

Helps defeat the Imperial army

Allen represents the rank-and-file demand that the Agreement be taken seriously by the General Council rather than buried by the officers' committee

Clarke's detailed transcription becomes patchier after this point, so later sessions of the Putney Debates are known less completely than the first days

Cromwell joins the effort to have proposals refined by committee, aiming to turn the dispute over the Agreement into a controlled constitutional programme

Everard's participation shows that the debates resulted from pressure by New Agents elected from radical cavalry regiments rather than from officers alone

Ireton supports modifying the Agreement rather than adopting the Leveller draft unchanged, producing a limited result short of the radicals' full programme

Petty's arguments for birthright and equal voice help define the radical side of the debate, though the result does not secure full manhood suffrage

Sexby and the Agitators remain concerned that any compromise must satisfy soldiers who believed the Army had fought for liberty as well as pay and indemnity

1st reading of the 2nd Exclusion Bill passes through the Commons

1st reading of the 2nd Exclusion Bill passes through the Commons

Maria Luisa Gabriella marries Philip V in person at Figueres.

Louis XVI faced the Assembly's decision to place church property at the disposal of the nation as revolutionary financial reform accelerated.

Appointed Under Secretary at the Foreign Office

Assumes acting presidential authority during the political crisis of 1829.

Declares strong opposition to parliamentary reform while speaking in the House of Lords.

Becomes head of government during the early July Monarchy.

Appointed Chief Minister President of Prussia

Publishes a Tribune article on the political effects of commercial expansion and instability.

French leaves Ladysmith by rail shortly before the Boer siege completely isolates the town.

Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.

Directs Boer operations around Ladysmith.

Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.

Takes part in operations around the siege and relief of Ladysmith.

Is besieged in Ladysmith by Boer forces.

Scott, Wilson and Shackleton left on 2 November 1902 with dogs and supporting parties. Their goal was "to get as far south in a straight line on the Barrier ice as we can, reach the Pole if possible, or find some new land"

Scott, Wilson and Shackleton left on 2 November 1902 with dogs and supporting parties. Their goal was "to get as far south in a straight line on the Barrier ice as we can, reach the Pole if possible, or find some new land"

Leaves with Scott and Shackleton on the southern sledging journey during the Discovery Expedition

Churchill instructs Admiral Carden to conduct a limited bombardment against the outer Dardanelles forts.

Russia declares war on Turkey

Russia declares war on Turkey

The Admiralty declares the North Sea a military area and issues controlled routes for neutral shipping.

Addresses the growing manpower problem and the balance between military service and essential industry.

The Bolsheviks gain Moscow

The Bolsheviks gain Moscow

Bolshevik forces gain control of Moscow after prolonged street fighting against forces loyal to the former government.

"The establishment in Palestine of a National home for the Jewish people". Sends the "Balfour Declaration" to Lord Rothschild of the British Zionist Federation

Bolsheviks gain control of Moscow after heavy fighting.

The Bolsheviks gain Moscow

Opposes political interference in military command during council creation.

Brings Hail and the Rashidi emirate under Saudi control.

Participates in the final campaigns that incorporate Hail.

Creates the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a public broadcaster.

Germany gives southern Slovakia to Hungary

Germany gives southern Slovakia to Hungary

Germany gives southern Slovakia to Hungary

Ciano joined Ribbentrop in arbitrating the First Vienna Award affecting Czechoslovak territory.

Imredy's government gained southern Slovak and Ruthenian territories through the First Vienna Award after Munich.

Ribbentrop co-arbitrated the First Vienna Award transferring territory from Czechoslovakia to Hungary.

During the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas the Italians fought their way across the Thyamis (Kalamas) river, but were then forced to a halt

Arena leads Ariete during the final large Axis armoured counterattack, which fails to restore the El Alamein front.

Launches Operation Supercharge to break through the Axis position west of El Alamein.

151st & 152nd brigades launch Operation Supercharge & reach their objectives

After the success of the Allied operation Rommel decides to rereat to Fuka

Offers Piraeus, Salonica or Constantinople as alternatives to the difficult Black Sea conference route.

Flies "The Spruce Bruce", a flying boat

Appointed President of the USA, 33rd President, 2nd term

Elements of Eitan's 890th Battalion meet Gur's newly landed Nahal force at El-Tor.

Yoffe's brigade continues the southern advance toward Sharm el-Sheikh and the Straits of Tiran.

Ben-Ari's 7th Armoured Brigade advances deep into Sinai and halts about fifteen kilometres from the Suez Canal.

Keightley confirms final preparations for the airborne and amphibious assault on the canal zone.

Helps manage Commons business as the crisis produces deep political division

Supports the Government line as ministers defend the Suez operation in Parliament

Amer shifts attention to defending the canal zone as the Sinai withdrawal accelerates.

Gaza falls to the British forces

Supports General Assembly action calling for a ceasefire and withdrawal from Egypt.

Orders obstruction of the Suez Canal by sinking ships to deny use of the waterway to the invaders.

Dayan orders Israeli formations to exploit the general Egyptian withdrawal from Sinai.

Gur's Nahal battalion links with soldiers of the 890th Battalion at El-Tor.

Gur commands a Nahal battalion parachute landing at El-Tor during the southern phase of Operation Kadesh.

Pearson advances the proposal for an international emergency force to supervise a ceasefire and separation.

Gur's battalion secures El-Tor after its airborne landing in southern Sinai.

Warns Eden that the invasion should be stopped before troops land in the canal zone

Mountbatten renews warnings about the political and strategic risks of continuing the operation.

Nasser's government expands the sinking of vessels and obstructions to block canal navigation.

Laskov's divisional forces include the 27th Armoured Brigade as Israeli armour advances toward the canal.

Faces growing United Nations opposition as emergency sessions condemn the invasion

Proposes a United Nations Emergency Force to separate the opposing forces in the Suez crisis.

Egyptian forces retreat westward under heavy Israeli pressure in Sinai.

Healey moves to a new shadow secretary role as Labour reorganises its front bench.

Healey continues as a Labour shadow secretary of state before taking the defence portfolio.

Khrushchev continued correspondence with Kennedy about verification and the remaining questions surrounding Soviet military equipment in Cuba.

McCone reviewed reconnaissance showing dismantled missile equipment moving toward Cuban ports for shipment back to the Soviet Union.

Mikoyan arrived in Cuba to explain the Soviet-American settlement and negotiate its implementation with Fidel Castro.

Marks the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup led by General Duong Van Minh. Diem and his adviser, younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, are arrested after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) had been successful in a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon

Marks the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup led by General Duong Van Minh

Marks the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup led by General Duong Van Minh

Succeeds King Saud and becomes the third king of Saudi Arabia.

Is designated crown prince after King Faisal's accession.

Maiwandwal becomes prime minister after the first parliamentary elections under the 1964 Constitution.

Death of Norman Morrison, suicide. Burns himself to death in protest against the war within 40 feet of the Pentagon

Tunisia held presidential and legislative elections under the single-party political system.

Tunisia held presidential and legislative elections under the single-party political system.

General election outcome recorded for Habib Bourguiba: Tunisia held presidential and legislative elections under the single-party political system.

Government context for this general election: Tunisia held presidential and legislative elections under the single-party political system.

Hedi Nouira became prime minister and led a long period of economic liberalization.

Willoughby Harry Thompson becomes first Governor of Montserrat

Montserrat gains a separate governor under the British monarch

The TUC insist on repealing the Housing Finance & Industrial Relations Acts. Negotiations break down

Jimmy Carter wins 51% of the popular vote & 297 electoral college votes

Gerald Ford wins 48% of the popular vote & 247 electoral college votes

Wins a white referendum on the proposed tricameral constitution.

Wins the white referendum on a new constitution.

Secures approval for constitutional restructuring excluding Black voters.

Secures approval for a tricameral parliamentary system.

Stalins daughter returns to Russia after an absence of 17 yrs

In the 70th Anniversary speech says Stalins crimes were "enormous & unforgiveable"

al-Bakhit participates in peace negotiations connected with Jordanian political and historical developments.

Niyazov becomes President of the Turkmen SSR

Releases Harvest Moon, a warm acoustic sequel in spirit to Harvest.

Hubble detects a new large dark storm forming in Neptune's northern hemisphere.

Hester leads Hubble imaging of towering star-forming columns in the Eagle Nebula that become known as the Pillars of Creation.

Bush wins 50.9% of the vote, 31 states & 286 electoral votes

Kerry wins 48.1% od the vote, 19 states & 252 electoral votes

Appointed Foreign Secretary

Appointed Governor of Bihar.

Appointed Minister of the Interior

Appointed Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau

Resign a 2nd time, following allegations misconduct over his directorship & shares

Resign a 2nd time, following allegations misconduct over his directorship & shares

Starmer issues a statement defining fairness, independence and accountability for public prosecutors.

New Horizons obtains its first distant spacecraft observations of Kuiper Belt object 1994 JR1.

Birth of Henry of Almayne

Birth of a 5th daughter

Birth of Daniel Boone

Birth of Warren Harding

Birth of Harlow Shapley

Birth of Helmuth Otto Ludwig Weidling

Birth of David Lawrence Schwimmer

William's wife Matilda dies at Caen, ending a marriage that had strengthened the Norman dynasty's continental alliances.

Death of Henry Stratford, executed by Henry VIII, the Buckinghmam title is forfeit

The Duke of Buckingham is executed by Richard III for instegating a Lancastrian plot

Publication of "Death of George Bernard Shaw"

Death of Leo Baeck

Death of Ngo Dinh Diem

Killed after the coup that ends his presidency

Death of Norman Morrison, suicide

Death of Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr

Helps defeat the Imperial army

Helps defeat the Russian-Cossack army during the Chudnov campaign

Commands Crown forces in the Chudnov campaign against the Russian-Cossack army

Captures Baturyn and destroys Mazepa's main supply base.

During the Battle of Elaia-Kalamas the Italians fought their way across the Thyamis (Kalamas) river, but were then forced to a halt

Coordinates air support and interdiction during the decisive armoured breakout at El Alamein.

Leads 7th Armoured Division during the breakout phase of the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Leese's XXX Corps supports the breakout during the closing phase of the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Commands X Corps armoured formations during Operation Supercharge at the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Montgomery's offensive forces Rommel's army into retreat during the Second Battle of El Alamein.

Rommel begins withdrawing after Montgomery's forces break the Axis position at El Alamein.