A Daily Dose of History (05 Nov 2024) Today's historical events:

• Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
• Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.
• Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.
• William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham.
• Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
• Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
• Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
• Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
• American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
• American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.

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