November 13

November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 48 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1553 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen "Bloody" Mary I.

1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.

1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 26 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 13th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 31.

Martyrs Antoninus, Nicephorus, Germanus, and Manetha, of Caesarea in Palestine (308)

Saint John Chrysostom (the "Golden-Mouthed"), Archbishop of Constantinople (407)

Saints Valentine, Solutor and Victor, martyrs venerated in Ravenna in Italy (305)

Saint Matrius (Mitrius, Mitre, Metre, Merre), a Greek slave that was abused and beheaded (314)

Saint Damasus, Pope of Rome (384)

Saints Arcadius, Paschasius, Probus, Eutychian and Paulillus, Protomartyrs of the Vandal persecution (437)

Saint Bricius (Brice, Britius, Brixius), Bishop of Tours (444)

Saint Euphrasius (Eufrèse), Bishop of Clermont, Gaul (515)

Saint Leonien of Vienne, Gaul (518)

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