What happened on 5 November?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1688 Glorious Revolution William of Orange invades; James II flees; Parliament invites William and Mary to rule under conditions that limit royal power.
2. 1605 Gunpowder Plot Guy Fawkes and Catholic conspirators try to blow up Parliament and James I; foiled.
3. 1688 William of Orange lands at Torbay Invited by English nobles, William of Orange lands with a Dutch army, beginning the Glorious Revolution.
4. 333 BCE Battle of Issus Alexander defeats Darius III in southern Anatolia; captures the Persian royal family.
5. 1556 Second Battle of Panipat Akbar defeats Hemu; restores Mughal rule in north India.
6. 1956 Anglo-French paratroopers land at Port Said A week after Israel's thrust into Sinai, British and French airborne forces seize the northern end of the canal in a textbook assault — militarily faultless, politically ruinous. W
7. 1945 Indian National Army Trials Public trials of INA officers galvanise nationalist sentiment.
8. 1757 Battle of Rossbach Frederick the Great destroys a French-Imperial army in 90 minutes; one of the most one-sided victories in 18th-century warfare.
9. 1938 Barber's Adagio for Strings Slow, intensely melancholic string-orchestra arrangement of the second movement of Barber's String Quartet; a 20th-century standard for mourning.
10. 1854 Battle of Inkerman A hard-fought allied victory in fog, sometimes called 'the soldiers' battle'.
11. 1937 Hossbach Memorandum Record of Hitler outlining expansionist war plans to senior commanders.
12. 1968 George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign Alabama's segregationist governor runs for president on the American Independent ticket and carries five Southern states with 13.5% of the vote — the most successful third-party ru