5 November in history

5 events that happened on 5 November, from 1414 to 2006.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1414 CE 612 years ago

    The Council of Constance opens

    A general council met at Constance to end the Great Schism, in which three men claimed the papacy. It deposed two, accepted the resignation of the third and elected Martin V, but also condemned Jan Hus to the stake.

  2. 1605 CE 421 years ago

    Guy Fawkes is arrested beneath Parliament

    Shortly after midnight, Guy Fawkes was caught guarding gunpowder in a cellar under the House of Lords, foiling a Catholic plot to kill James I. Bonfires were lit in celebration, beginning the tradition of Bonfire Night.

  3. 1854 CE 172 years ago

    British and French troops repel the Russians at Inkerman

    In thick fog, Russian columns attacked British positions above Sevastopol. Fighting in small groups with little direction, the British, reinforced by the French, held the ridge in what became known as the 'Soldiers' Battle'.

  4. 1912 CE 114 years ago

    Woodrow Wilson is elected US president

    With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft splitting the Republican vote, the Democrat Woodrow Wilson won the presidency. He created the Federal Reserve and led America into the First World War.

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  5. 2006 CE 20 years ago

    Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death

    An Iraqi tribunal sentenced Saddam Hussein to hang for the killing of 148 Shia men and boys from Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt. He was executed on 30 December 2006.

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