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November 26: Feast Day of Sylvester Gozzolini and John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church), and Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed the Second Triumvirate alliance.
- 1476 – Vlad the Impaler (pictured) defeated Basarab Laiotă with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
- 1778 – An expedition led by James Cook reached Maui, the second largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, carrying the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee in northeast Wales, opened.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.