A Daily Dose of History (20 Nov 2024) Today's historical events:

• Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
• During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
• Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
• John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
• The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan, after the victorious Venetian enterprise of military engineering of the Galeas per montes.
• Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.
• Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the Palisades and then attack Fort Lee. The Continental Army starts to retreat across New Jersey.
• New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
• Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
• The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by Allied troops for several more years.
• An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
• Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
• American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

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