What happened on 15 November?

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

1. 1884 Berlin Conference European powers and the United States meet without African representatives to agree rules for trade and colonial claims in Africa, accelerating the wider partition of the continent
2. 2012 Xi Jinping's rule of China Anti-corruption purges, the end of term limits, Belt and Road, zero-Covid and a harder line abroad.
3. 2012 Xi Jinping becomes paramount leader (China) Takes over as General Secretary of the CCP; later consolidates power and removes term limits.
4. 1864 Sherman's March to the Sea Sherman's 'total war' march from Atlanta to Savannah.
5. 1533 Inca Empire ends Conventional end of Inca Empire.
6. 1533 Pizarro takes Cusco The conquistadors ride unopposed into the navel of the world — the Inca capital of golden temples and stone fitted without mortar — and install a compliant young prince, Manco Inca
7. 1971 Intel 4004 microprocessor Intel ships the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the seed of the personal-computer revolution.
8. 1986 Licensed to Ill (Beastie Boys album) The first rap album to top the Billboard 200.
9. 2002 Hu Jintao becomes China's leader Hu Jintao takes over as Communist Party General Secretary, presiding over a decade of breakneck economic growth.
10. 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement Hillsborough agreement gives the Republic a consultative role in Northern Ireland's affairs; Unionist outrage but a path forward.
11. 1908 Belgian annexation of the Congo International pressure forces Leopold to cede the Congo to the Belgian state.
12. 1956 The first UN peacekeeping force deploys Blue-helmeted troops of the UN Emergency Force arrive in Egypt to supervise the ceasefire and the Anglo-French withdrawal — the United Nations' first armed peacekeeping mission, im
13. 1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement Thatcher and FitzGerald sign a treaty giving Dublin a formal consultative voice in Northern Ireland for the first time — enraging unionists, who besiege Belfast City Hall 100,000 s
14. 1889 Proclamation of the Republic of Brazil Army officers under Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca depose the ageing emperor in a near-bloodless coup, a year after abolition alienated the planters; Pedro II and his family are shippe
15. 1996 Stone of Scone returned to Scotland The ancient coronation stone, seized by Edward I in 1296, is returned to Edinburgh after 700 years.
16. 1315 Battle of Morgarten Swiss confederates ambush and rout a Habsburg army, consolidating the young confederacy.
17. 1975 First G6 summit at Rambouillet Giscard invites the leaders of the US, Germany, Britain, Italy and Japan to a château to coordinate after the oil shock — the birth of the G7.