November 27 in History

57 events 25 – 2024

November 27 spans 57 recorded events across recorded history — from 25 – 2024. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.

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Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into

2024 — Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria

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In 2024, Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.

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On 27 November 2024, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups called the Military Operations Command led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and supported by allied Turkish-backed groups in the Syrian National Army (SNA) launched an offensive against the Ba'athist government's armed forces in Aleppo and Hama Governorates in Syria. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.

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Codenamed Deterrence of Aggression by HTS, this was the first military offensive campaign launched by opposition forces in the Syrian civil war since the March 2020 Idlib ceasefire. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.

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On 29 November 2024, HTS entered Aleppo and captured most of the city, as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) collapsed. This shows how the event shaped policy and public communication in the same period.

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The next day, opposition forces made rapid advances, capturing dozens of towns and villages as government forces disintegrated, and advanced toward Hama and subsequently capturing it on 5 December. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.


Luoyang is declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han.
Calendar year
AD 25 (XXV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Agrippa. The denomination AD 25 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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25
Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
Roman emperor from 161 to 180
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.
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176
Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
Roman statesman
Flavius Rufinus was a 4th-century Eastern Roman statesman of Aquitanian extraction who served as Praetorian prefect of the East for the emperor Theodosius I, as well as for his son Arcadius, under whom Rufinus exercised significant influence in the state affairs.
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395
King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
King of the Franks from 481 to 511
Clovis I was the first Frankish king to unite the Franks, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king, and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs. He is considered the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries. Clovis is an important figure in the history of France. According to Charles de Gaulle, he was "the first king of what would become France."
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511
Byzantine Emperor Maurice is forced to watch as the usurper Phocas executes his five sons before Maurice is beheaded himself.
Continuation of the Roman Empire (330–1453)
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived the events that caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, it endured until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453. The term 'Byzantine Empire' was coined only after its demise; its citizens used the term 'Roman Empire' and called themselves 'Romans'.
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602
Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1088 to 1099
Pope Urban II, otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death. He is best known for convening the Council of Clermont, which ignited the series of Catholic military expeditions known as the Crusades.
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1095
Al-Salih Hajji, the last Qalawunid sultan, is deposed by Barquq, ending the long Turkic Bahri Mamluk period in general and particularly the Qalawunid dynasty, and beginning the reign of the Circassian Burji Mamluk.
Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Al-Salih Hajji, also Haji II, was a Turk Mamluk ruler, and the last ruler of the Bahri dynasty in 1382. He briefly ruled again in 1389, during the advent of the Burji dynasty. He fell hostage to Sayf ad-Din Barquq before the small battle of Marj al-Saffar in 1390. He was the son of Al-Ashraf Sha'ban.
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1382
Palace plot of Renyin year: A group of Ming dynasty palace women fail to murder the Jiajing Emperor, and are executed by slow-slicing.
1544 Chinese imperial assassination plot
The Palace plot of Renyin year, also known as the Palace Women's Uprising (宮女起義), was a Ming dynasty plot against the Jiajing Emperor, where sixteen palace women attempted to murder him. It occurred in 1542, the 21st year of the reign of the Jiajing Emperor and the renyin year of the sexagenary cycle, hence its name.
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1542
The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.
Protestant church in Friedrichstadt, Berlin, Germany
Jerusalem Church is one of the churches of the Evangelical Congregation in the Friedrichstadt, a member of the Protestant umbrella organisation Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The present church building is located in Berlin, borough Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, in the quarter of Friedrichstadt. Jerusalem Church is fourth in rank of the oldest oratories in the town proper.
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1727
An earthquake in northern Morocco devastates the cities of Fes and Meknes.
Earthquake in Morocco
The 1755 Meknes earthquake affected Morocco on 27 November 1755. The earthquake had a moment magnitude (Mw ) estimated at between 6.5 and 7.0. It devastated the cities of Fes and Meknes—killing at least 15,000 people in both cities. The earthquake struck less than a month after another earthquake that devastated Morocco and Lisbon on 1 November. Previously regarded as an aftershock, this earthquake likely represented rupture of a separate fault due to changes in tectonic stress following their first event.
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1755
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20 people 1985 – 2003
Adéla Jergová
Adéla Jergová
Slovak singer-songwriter
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2003
Zoe Colletti
American actress
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2001
Mike Williams
Mike Williams
Dutch DJ and record producer
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1996
Suliasi Vunivalu
Suliasi Vunivalu
Fijian rugby league player
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1995
Aubrey Peeples
Aubrey Peeples
American actress and singer
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1993
Ala Boratyn
Polish singer-songwriter
Alicja Julia "Ala" Boratyn, born 27 November 1992), sometimes known as just Ala, is a Polish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2005 as one of the lead singers of Polish girl duo Blog 27. With Blog 27, Boratyn…
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1992
Chanyeol
Chanyeol
South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and model
Park Chan-yeol, better known mononymously as Chanyeol, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy group Exo, its sub-group Exo-K and sub-unit…
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1992
Bradley Zimmer
Bradley Zimmer
American baseball player
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1992
Josh Dubovie
Josh Dubovie
English singer
Josh James Dubovie is an English singer. He represented the United Kingdom at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Oslo, Norway, in May 2010, after winning the national selection Eurovision: Your Country Needs You…
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1990
Michael Floyd
Michael Floyd
American football player
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1989
Freddie Sears
Freddie Sears
English footballer
Frederick David Sears is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Isthmian League North Division club Maldon & Tiptree.
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1989
Luigi Datome
Luigi Datome
Italian basketball player
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1987
Lashana Lynch
Lashana Lynch
English actress
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1987
Suresh Kumar Raina
Suresh Kumar Raina
Indian cricketer
Suresh Raina is an Indian former international cricketer. He played for the India national team and represented Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. He was an aggressive left-handed middle-order batsman and who…
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1986
Steven Silva
American-Filipino footballer
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1986
Xavi Torres
Xavi Torres
Spanish footballer
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1986
Oritsé Williams
Oritsé Williams
English singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer
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1986
Park Soo-jin
Park Soo-jin
South Korean singer
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1985
Alison Pill
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Canadian actress
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1985
Thilo Versick
German footballer
Thilo Versick is a German former professional footballer who played as a forward. He made two appearances for Arminia Bielefeld in the Bundesliga.
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1985
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20 people 2012 – 2024
Mary McGee
American motorcycle racer (born 1936)
Mary Bernice McGee was an American motorsport racing pioneer. She was the first woman to compete in motorcycle road racing and motocross events in the United States. Starting out as a sports car racer, she competed in…
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2024
Apetor
Apetor
Norwegian YouTuber (born 1964)
Tor Rathje Eckhoff, also known as Apetor, was a Norwegian YouTuber known primarily for his videos where he drank vodka while performing activities on frozen waters, like ice skating, swimming in ice holes and diving. He…
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2021
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Iranian nuclear scientist (born 1958)
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi was an Iranian nuclear physicist and scientist. He was regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program.
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2020
Ioannis Grivas
Greek statesman (born 1923)
Ioannis Grivas was a Greek judge, who served as President of the Court of Cassation and served as the Prime Minister of Greece at the head of a non-party caretaker government in 1989.
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2016
Mark Behr
Tanzanian-South African author and academic (born 1963)
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2015
Maurice Strong
Maurice Strong
Canadian businessman and diplomat (born 1929)
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2015
Garrett Swasey
Garrett Swasey
American figure skater and coach (born 1971)
Garrett Preston Russell Swasey (November 16, 1971 – November 27, 2015) was an American competitive ice skater, figure skating coach, and police officer. As an ice dancer, he won the U.S. junior ice dance title at the…
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2015
Philippe Washer
Philippe Washer
Belgian tennis player and golfer (born 1924)
Philippe Washer was a Belgian tennis player. He competed in the Davis Cup a number of times, from 1946 to 1961. He was ranked world No. 8 in 1957.
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2015
Wanda Błeńska
Wanda Błeńska
Polish physician and missionary (born 1911)
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2014
Phillip Hughes
Phillip Hughes
Australian cricketer (born 1988)
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2014
P. D. James
P. D. James
English author (born 1920)
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2014
Jack Kyle
Jack Kyle
Irish rugby player and humanitarian (born 1926)
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2014
Fernance B. Perry
Fernance B. Perry
Portuguese-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1922)
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2014
Lewis Collins
Lewis Collins
English-American actor (born 1946)
Lewis Collins was an English actor, best known for his career-defining role playing 'Bodie' in the late 1970s – early 1980s British television series The Professionals.
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2013
Herbert F. DeSimone
American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Rhode Island (born 1929)
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2013
Volker Roemheld
German physiologist and biologist (born 1941)
Volker Roemheld was a German agricultural scientist, plant physiologist and soil biologist at Hohenheim University.
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2013
Nílton Santos
Nílton Santos
Brazilian footballer (born 1925)
Nílton dos Santos was a Brazilian footballer who primarily played as a wingback. At international level, he was a member of the Brazil squads that won the 1958 and 1962 World Cups.
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2013
Manuel F. Segura
Filipino colonel (born 1919)
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2013
Mickey Baker
Mickey Baker
American guitarist (born 1925)
MacHouston "Mickey" Baker was an American musician, best known for his work as a studio musician and as part of the recording duo Mickey & Sylvia.
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2012
Ab Fafié
Ab Fafié
Dutch footballer and manager (born 1941)
Ab Fafié was a Dutch professional football player and manager.
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2012
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What happened on November 27?

A featured event on this date is 2024: Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria. This page also lists 57 events from other years on the same day.

Why is November 27 remembered in history?

November 27 brings together events, births, and deaths across many eras, which makes it useful for seeing how one calendar date connects different historical turning points.

Who was born on November 27?

Notable birthdays on this date include Adéla Jergová, Zoe Colletti, Mike Williams.

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Who died on November 27?

Notable deaths on this date include Mary McGee, Apetor, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

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What happened on November 27 in history?

On November 27, one notable event in history was 2024: Syrian rebel groups led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham launch a ground offensive into Syria..

This date currently highlights 57 recorded events on thisDay.info, spanning 25 – 2024.

DateNovember 27
Featured year2024
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Events listed57

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