November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 56 days remaining until the end of the year.
1605 – The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament fails. Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are arrested, ending the plot led by Robert Catesby. In 2017, actor Kit Harrington of Game of Thrones fame, portrayed Catesby, who was his direct ancestor.
1688 – Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
1757 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1811 – Priest José Matías Delgado begins El Salvador's 1811 independence campaign.
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader, is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1838 – The Federal Republic of Central America begins to dissolve when Nicaragua breaks away.
1844 – James K. Polk is elected President of the
United States.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union army for the second, and final, time.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony defies the ban on female suffrage (voting), by voting in the United States Presidential election; In the election, Ulysses S. Grant is elected to a second term. 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first US patent for an automobile.
1911 – After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, Italy takes control of Tripoli and Cyrenaica.