What happened on 11 November?

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

1. 1480 Ivan III ends Tatar yoke Russian principalities throw off Mongol tribute at the Great Stand on the Ugra River.
2. 1918 Armistice of 11 November 1918 Fighting on the Western Front ends; basis for Remembrance Day.
3. 1918 Poland regains independence As the partitioning empires collapse, Piłsudski takes command in Warsaw and an independent Poland returns to the map after 123 years.
4. 1975 Dismissal of the Whitlam government Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam amid a Senate supply deadlock, Australia's gravest constitutional crisis.
5. 1914 Battle of Lódz Eastern Front battle between Germans and Russians.
6. 1965 Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence Ian Smith's white-minority government breaks from Britain rather than accept majority rule; Wilson rules out force and imposes sanctions he predicts will work 'within weeks rather
7. 1940 The raid on Taranto Twenty-one obsolete Swordfish biplanes off HMS Illustrious cripple half the Italian battle fleet in its own harbour by night — the first all-aircraft naval attack in history. Among
8. 1572 Tycho Brahe observes a supernova Tycho records a new star in Cassiopeia, showing the heavens beyond the moon do change.
9. 1630 Day of the Dupes Marie de' Medici believes she has persuaded her son Louis XIII to dismiss Richelieu; by nightfall the king has backed the cardinal and her faction is ruined.
10. 1843 Andersen's The Ugly Duckling The scorned grey cygnet who grows into a swan — a thinly veiled portrait of the cobbler's son from Odense whom Copenhagen society had mocked.