On This Day: November 3rd

French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

The University of Vermont, the oldest university in Vermont, and fifth-oldest in New England, is chartered.

The American Continental Army is disbanded.

English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France.

Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops.

The River Arno floods causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.

The Rouen Riot, an attempt by English king William Rufus to take possession of Rouen, the capital city of his brother Robert, duke of Normandy, fails.

Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.