Editing November 23 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1644]] &ndash; [[John Milton]] publishes ''[[Areopagitica]]'', a pamphlet decrying [[censorship]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Laura Lunger Knoppers|title=The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTRQSJTIrsMC&pg=PA202|date=29 November 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-956060-8|pages=202}}</ref>
*[[1733]] &ndash; The start of the [[1733 slave insurrection on St. John]] in what was then the [[Danish West Indies]].
*[[1808]] &ndash; French and Poles defeat the Spanish at [[Battle of Tudela]].
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Third Battle of Chattanooga|Battle of Chattanooga]] begins: [[United States|Union]] forces led by General [[Ulysses S. Grant]] reinforce troops at [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], and counter-attack [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops.<ref>{{cite book|author=Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Reunion|title=Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdZBAQAAMAAJ|year=1923|publisher=Robert Clarke|page=65}}</ref>
*[[1867]] &ndash; The [[Manchester Martyrs]] are hanged in [[Manchester]], England, for killing a police officer while freeing two [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] members from custody.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Bernard Rose|title=The Manchester martyrs: the story of a Fenian tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PLFnAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Lawrence & Wishart|page=132|isbn=978-0-85315-209-5}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; Corrupt [[Tammany Hall]] leader William Magear Tweed (better known as [[William M. Tweed|Boss Tweed]]) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
*[[1890]] &ndash; King [[William III of the Netherlands]] dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Princess Wilhelmina]] to succeed him.