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16 November| 16 November 42 BC | Roman Empire [births and deaths] | Tiberius, second Roman emperor AD 14–37, born (–AD 37). | | 16 November 1326 | England [wars] | King Edward II of England and Hugh Despenser the Younger are captured at Neath Abbey in Wales. Hugh Despenser the Younger is executed. | | 16 November 1797 | Prussia, France [political events] | Frederick William III succeeds his father, Frederick William II, as king of Prussia and continues his father's policy of neutrality in the war against revolutionary France. | | 16 November 1857 | India, UK [wars] | British troops, under the Scottish general Sir Colin Campbell, commander of the forces in India, future field marshal and Baron Clyde, relieve the north Indian city of Lucknow, besieged by Indian rebels. | | 16 November 1885 | Canada [political events] | Louis Riel, Canadian Mètis leader who led an uprising against the Canadian government, is hanged in Assiniboia, Canada (41). | | 16 November 1905 | Russian Empire [elections] | The reformer Count Sergei Witte is appointed prime minister of Russia. | | 16 November 1917 | France [law and government] | Paul Painlevé falls as prime minister of France amid fears of French capitulation in the European war, and the aggressive Georges Clemenceau (‘the tiger’) forms a cabinet. | | 16 November 1918 | [political events] | Hungary proclaims itself a republic independent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. | | 16 November 1982 | USSR [diplomacy] | Sino-Soviet talks open in Moscow, the first since 1969. | | 16 November 1988 | Pakistan [elections] | Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins 94 seats in the general election. On 2 December, she is sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan. | | 16 November 1998 | Israel [political events] | Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu announces that he is suspending the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank until PLO leader Yasser Arafat publicly retracts a pledge to declare a Palestinian state next May. |
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