November 16, 1745
English army sets out from Newcastle in vain attempt to stop Scottish Jacobite invasion of England.
November 16, 1754
William Marsden FRS FSA (16 November 1754 – 6 October 1836) was an English scholar, Irish orientalist, numismatist, and linguist who served as Second, then First Secretary to the Admiralty during …
November 16, 1793
Francis Danby, was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. He was born near Killinick, County Wexford, Ireland on November 16, 1793.
November 16, 1795
Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough (1795-1837), was known for his interest in Mexican antiquities and his contributions to the study and promotion of Mexican history and culture.
November 16, 1814
Michael Kelly Lawler (November 16, 1814 – July 26, 1882) was a volunteer militia soldier in the Black Hawk War 1831–1832, an officer in the United States Army in both the Mexican–American War and the …
November 16, 1816
Benjamin Woodward (16 November 1816 – 15 May 1861) was an Irish architect who, in partnership with Sir Thomas Newenham Deane, designed a number of buildings in Dublin, Cork and Oxford.
November 16, 1891
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opened at the East End Exhibition Buildings on Duke Street in Glasgow on November 16, 1891
November 16, 1893
George Alexander Osborne (24 September 1806 – 16 November 1893) was an Irish composer and pianist.
November 17, 1292
John Balliol or John de Balliol (c. 1249 – late 1314), known derisively as Toom Tabard (meaning ’empty coat’), was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296.
November 17, 1814
Joseph Finegan, (November 17, 1814 – October 29, 1885), was an American businessman and brigadier general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
November 17, 1852
Michael Corcoran (September 21, 1827 – December 22, 1863) was an Irish-American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a close confidant of President Abraham Lincoln.
November 17, 1855
David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, reached Victoria Falls in Africa on November 16, 1855.
