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What happened on 27 November?

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

  1. 1095 First Crusade preached at Clermont Urban II calls for armed pilgrimage to free Jerusalem at the Council of Clermont.
  2. 43 BCE Second Triumvirate (Rome) Octavian, Antony, Lepidus form a triumvirate after Caesar's death.
  3. 1295 Model Parliament of Edward I Edward I summons a representative parliament that includes lords, clergy, knights and burgesses; precedent for later parliaments.
  4. 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir Outnumbered UN forces fight a brutal winter breakout from encircling Chinese armies.
  5. 1919 Treaty of Neuilly Peace treaty with Bulgaria.
  6. 1942 Born: Jimi Hendrix American guitarist who redefined the electric guitar's possibilities.
  7. 1895 Alfred Nobel signs his will At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris the dynamite magnate leaves almost his entire fortune to fund annual prizes for those who 'have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind'.
  8. 1868 Battle of the Washita At dawn in the snow, Custer's 7th Cavalry attacks Black Kettle's Cheyenne village on the Washita River, killing the peace-seeking chief and dozens of his people.
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