Events for November 24

November 24, 1572

John Knox, leading reformer of Church of Scotland, died

John Knox, (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Cnocc; c. 1514 – 24 November 1572) the prominent Scottish religious reformer and a key figure in the Protestant Reformation, died on November 24, 1572. He was born in Giffordgate, a street in Haddington, East Lothian

November 24, 1542

Rout of Solway Moss

The Battle of Solway Moss took place on Solway Moss near the River Esk on the English side of the Anglo-Scottish border on 24th of November 1542 between English and Scottish forces.

November 24, 1922

Irish republican Erskine Childers is executed by the Free State government

Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (/ˈɜːrskɪn ˈtʃɪldərz/[1]), was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish independence.

November 24, 1865

James Stephens, Fenian, escapes from Richmond prison, Dublin

James Stephens ( 26 January 1825 – 29 March 1901) was an Irish Republican, and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin. This organisation, founded on 17 March 1858, was later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood (I.R.B).