Occult:This month in history/November

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  • 1 November - The Archbishop of Capua sends a letter to Nicolaus Copernicus asking him to explain his heliocentric hypothesis. (1536)
  • 1 November - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. (1894)
  • 8 November - Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. (1901)
  • 10 November - A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. (1793)
  • 11 November - Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist is born. (1493)
  • 16 November - LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. (1938)
  • 17 November - Mary I of England dies of natural causes. (1558)
  • 18 November - Aleister Crowley is initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (1898)
  • 20 November - Occultist and author Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers dies. (1918)
  • 22 November - Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Knights Templar and seize their assets. (1307)
  • 26 November - Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. (1476)
  • 30 November - The Hieronymus Bosch Tarot is first published by Bloodstone Studios. (2020)