Editing November 30 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[Queen Anne's War]]: The second [[Siege of Pensacola (1707)|Siege of Pensacola]] comes to end with the failure of the [[British Empire]] and their [[Muscogee|Creek]] allies to capture [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]], [[Spanish Florida]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Higginbotham|first=Jay|title=Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702–1711|year=1977 |location=Mobile, Ala.|publisher=Museum of the City of Mobile|isbn=9780914334033|page=312}}</ref>
*[[1718]] &ndash; [[Great Northern War]]: King [[Charles XII of Sweden]] dies during a [[Siege of Fredriksten|siege of the fortress of Fredriksten]] in [[Norway]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|title=Wars That Changed History: 50 of the World's Greatest Conflicts|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2015|isbn=9781610697859|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xhGFCgAAQBAJ|page=193}}</ref>
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]]: In Paris, representatives from the [[United States]] and [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).<ref>{{cite book|last=Jedson|first=Lee|title=The Treaty of Paris, 1783: A Primary Source Examination of the Treaty That Recognized American Independence|location=New York|publisher=Rosen Central Primary Source|date=2006|isbn=9781404204416|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkfDMuLpBBUC|page=4}}</ref>
*[[1786]] &ndash; The [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]], under [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor|Pietro Leopoldo I]], becomes the first modern state to abolish the [[capital punishment|death penalty]] (later commemorated as [[Cities for Life Day]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Bessler|first=John|title=The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights: International Law, State Practice, and the Emerging Abolitionist Norm|location=Cambridge, U.K.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=2022|isbn=9781108845571|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3maEAAAQBAJ|page=52}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; The [[Balmis Expedition]] starts in [[Spain]] with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in [[Spanish America]] and [[Philippines]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Esparza|first=José|chapter=Viral Epidemics in Latin America From the Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries and the Early Days of Virology in the Region|title=Human Virology in Latin America: From Biology to Control|editor-last1=Ludert|editor-first1=Juan Ernesto|editor-last2=Pujol|editor-first2=Flor H.|editor-last3=Arbiza|editor-first3=Juan|location=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Springer|date=2017|isbn=9783319545660|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b70tDwAAQBAJ|page=7}}</ref>
*  1803   &ndash; In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the [[Louisiana Territory]] to the [[French First Republic]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Beers|first=Henry Putney|title=French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources|location=Baton Rouge, La.|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|date=1989|isbn=9780807114445|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CxO3RcGScEUC|page=22}}</ref>
*[[1853]] &ndash; [[Crimean War]]: [[Battle of Sinop]]: The [[Imperial Russian Navy]] under [[Pavel Nakhimov]] destroys the [[Military of the Ottoman Empire#Ottoman Navy|Ottoman fleet]] under Osman Pasha at [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinop]], a sea port in northern [[Turkey]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|title=Battles That Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2011|isbn=9781598844290|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHpVn68GCogC|page=323}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] [[Army of Tennessee]] led by General [[John Bell Hood]] suffers heavy losses in an attack on the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[Army of the Ohio]] under General [[John Schofield]] in the [[Battle of Franklin]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|title=American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Volume I: A—C|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2013|isbn=9781851096770|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dvYAQAAQBAJ|page=2281}}</ref>
*[[1872]] &ndash; The [[1872 Scotland v England football match|first-ever international football match]] takes place at [[Hamilton Crescent]], [[Glasgow]], between [[Scotland men's national football team|Scotland]] and [[England men's national football team|England]].<ref>{{cite news |title=140 years since the first Scotland-England game |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20554627 |access-date=30 November 2021}}</ref>