11 November in history

5 events that happened on 11 November, from 1215 to 1965.

International day

Remembrance Day

Observed each year at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — the moment the Armistice ending the First World War took effect in 1918 — Remembrance Day honours the sacrifice of military personnel who have died in all wars since.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1215 CE 811 years ago

    Pope Innocent III opens the Fourth Lateran Council

    The largest church council of the Middle Ages met in Rome under Innocent III. It defined transubstantiation, required annual confession and ordered Jews and Muslims to wear distinguishing dress.

  2. 1831 CE 195 years ago

    Nat Turner is hanged in Virginia

    Nat Turner was executed at Jerusalem, Virginia, for leading the August revolt in which about 55 to 60 white people were killed. Reprisals killed many more Black people, and southern states tightened slave codes.

    Virginia

  3. 1918 CE 108 years ago

    The armistice ends fighting on the Western Front

    Signed at 5 a.m. in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne, the armistice between Germany and the Allies took effect at 11 o'clock. The day is marked as Armistice or Remembrance Day.

    Allies

  4. 1921 CE 105 years ago

    The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington

    President Harding presided as an unidentified American soldier from the Western Front was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. A year earlier, Britain and France had interred their own unknown warriors.

  5. 1965 CE 61 years ago

    Rhodesia declares independence from Britain

    Ian Smith's white minority government issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence to avoid majority rule. Britain and the UN imposed sanctions, and after a long guerrilla war Zimbabwe became independent in 1980.

    Zimbabwe

November

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. 14
  15. 15
  16. 16
  17. 17
  18. 18
  19. 19
  20. 20
  21. 21
  22. 22
  23. 23
  24. 24
  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
  28. 28
  29. 29
  30. 30

All days of the year →