November 5: On November 5, 1757, Frederick "the Great" of Prussia defeated the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire of Austria at the Battle of Rossbach, during the Seven Years' War.

Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, aged 68

Seven Years' War definition can be summarized in the non-acceptance and lack of honor to allow a woman to rule the Holy Roman Empire. As a result a new struggle for power in Europe began between 1756 and 1763, in order to establish control over Austria that lost Silesia in favor of Prussia.

Añadir leFrederick the Great closes the trap. Red represents the French and Austrian army.

It is pertinent to say that the war in question should be recognized as the First World War, because its battles took place in Europe, America, Asia, West Africa, India and the Philippines: It was a global war.

Frederick II, nicknamed "The Great" was King of Prussia and admired for his brilliance in military campaigns as well as his expertise to organize of the Prussian armies. When Frederick assumed the throne of Prussia, he attacked Austria and claimed Silesia, which launched him to fame as a military strategist.

5 November 1757 – Battle of Rossbach – Seven Years War

Frederick took advantage of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by Maria Theresa of Austria, who had no support from other European monarchies, nor of her own generals who were ashamed to undergo a woman.

As you can see areas of conflict can be found in the maps of the campaign of "Empire Total War".

The antagonisms between Prussia´s Hohenzollern dynasty, the Habsburg dynasty and the houses of Bourbon in France and Spain were in constant conflict of territorial interests worldwide. Actually, the Seven Years’ War was a global war.

All the participants of the Seven Years' War.   Great Britain, Prussia, Portugal, with allies   France, Spain, Austria, Russia, Sweden with allies.

November 4: Today is anniversary of the day Chevrolet cars entered the US market to compete with the Ford Model T in 1911.

1911 Chevrolet Series C Classic Six was the first model Chevrolet sold.

The "Classic Six" was the first car to carry the Chevrolet brand since US William C. Durant and a Swiss-French Louis Chevrolet, joined forces to create a company car manufacturing, using the brand name of the then famous racing driver Swiss: Chevrolet. The company was called Chevrolet Motor Car Company.

Chevrolet Classic Six 1911-1912

William Crapo "Billy" Durant was the founder of General Motors as well as the system of multi-brand strategy services, more popularly known in the US as "Chevy".

Etienne Planche had actually designed the Classic Six under Louis Chevrolet´s direction.

Billy Durant used the company in his favor to acquire majority stake in General Motors.

The very first Chevrolet, the Classic 6, which was unveiled on the 3rd November, 1911.

Durant's successor, Alfred Sloan, converted Chevrolet Division as one of General Motors Corporation. Sloan gave his maxim: "a car for every purse and purpose" with which he boosted sales to achieve sales targets and exceed his successful rival Henry Ford’s Model T. In 1929, General Motors surpassed Ford in sales.

Louis Joseph Chevrolet

November 2: Today is the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, by which Great Britain supported the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.

Portrait of Lord Balfour, along with his famous declaration: His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

The Balfour Declaration was actually a letter dated November 2, 1917 letter written by the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Arthur Balfour, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron de Rothchild and leader of the Jewish community in Britain in order to be transmitted to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The text of the letter was published a week later, on November 9, 1917 with the title "Balfour Declaration", which was later incorporated into the Treaty of Sevres with the Turkish Ottoman Empire and the mandate was Britain on Palestine.

The text was approved by the US government previously.

The Balfour Declaration became the Mandate of Great Britain's Partitioning Plan for the Middle East land that had been defined as Palestine.

Although the publication of the text was scheduled for Christmas because it was assumed that by that time had already been taken fully into Palestine, he managed to slip to the press.

November 1: The Pope Julius II was elected in 1503.

Pope Julius II, by Raphael. National Gallery, London.

Giulliano della Rovere was elected Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church on November 1st, 1503. He adopted the name of Julius II and was nicknamed "The warrior Pope ", also called "The Dread Pope" because he was short-tempered. He often he argued with Michelangelo over his delays in his fresh paint jobs assigned at the Vatican.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The papacy of Julius II was characterized by his active foreign policy, the ambitious construction projects and his unqualified support for the arts. The Pope ordered the destruction of the ancient basilica and ordered the construction of the new St. Peter's Basilica. He also hired Michelangelo to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings by Michelangelo were commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508.

Despite the political and military achievements of Julius II, the main title of honor is found in his patronage of art and literature. In 1506 he laid the first stone of the new St. Peter's Basilica.

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

The Pope was a friend, admirer and patron of Bramante, Michelangelo and Raphael artists. So he empowered them to beautify the Vatican and much of the city of Rome.

October 31: Today is the anniversary of the day when Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Godness power to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral in 1517.

Martin Luther, shown in a portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder, initiated the Protestant Reformation in 1517.

Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who increasingly alienated by selling indulgences to reduce the pains of purgatory after death. That practice enriched many senior prelates offered and sold pardons from the pulpits. The Pope authorized the indulgences market to raise funds for the Vatican.

The Protestant Reformation was a schism within Western Christianity that began with John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, Martin Luther and John Calvin, mainly. People were harassed with the corruption of the Church of Rome and went for support when Luther nailed his theses to protest. The "reformers" as they themselves called themselves protested against the doctrines, rituals, church leadership and structure of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. However, Luther got the physical and financial support to translate and publish the Bible in German. The separation of the assets in fixed assets, jewelry, artwork and other riches, caused harassment of the Catholic Church that led to the Thirty Years' War between 1618 and 1648.

On Saturday, October 31, 1517, a 33-year-old theology professor at Wittenberg University walked over to the Castle Church in Wittenberg and nailed a paper of 95 theses to the door, hoping to spark an academic discussion about their contents. In God’s providence and unbeknownst to anyone else that day, it would become a key event in igniting the Reformation.

Pope Leo X was appointed at the age of 38 years. He became Cardinal at 13 years old. He received minor orders at 8 years of age. He was the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent of the Medicis dynasty in Florence, the most powerful family of the Renaissance.

Luther´s Reformation led to religious wars within the Holy Roman Empire which culminated in the Thirty Years’ War between 1618 and 1648 when The Peace of Westphalia was signed to end the religious conflict.

October 30: On October 30, 1938, a CBS radio station in New York aired an episode of the soap opera "War of the Worlds", in which a famous actor, named George Orson Welles, described a Martian invasion happening at the time, causing a so hysterical panic that it spread throughout northeastern US and Canada, to capture the fear of both nations.

Orson Welles's War of the Worlds broadcast terrified listeners, many of whom actually believed a Martian invasion was actually occurring.

As usual, there were people who came late to the program that was broadcasting a fake invasion from Mars in honor of that week´s Halloween. Additionally, it was also the eve of World War II that Americans feared more Japanese than Hitler himself.

Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre of the Air were planted firmly on the map of human events. Much has been spoken of that fateful broadcast over the years, and its impact on both American culture and the entertainment industry.

People left their homes in a rush; there were people who took planes to the outside, airports were crammed; there were people who committed suicide. Others tirelessly called the White House… to the CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) until communications collapsed and even the electrical system of the entire US northeast.

Presenting News Like Soap Operas.

CBS promised not to make jokes and interrupt programming with news that may frighten listeners. The world's newspapers published 12,500 articles on the subject in a month. Adolf Hitler said: "That is the evidence of decadence and corrupt condition of democracy."

Photo of Orson Welles meeting with reporters in an effort to explain that no one connected with the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had any idea the show would cause panic.

October 29: Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, conquered Babylon and completed the largest empire that had existed up to that time, in 539 BC, and allowed the Jews to return to their Promised Land.

Nabonidus, last king of king of Babylonia, in relief showing him praying to the moon, sun and Venus; slab in the British Museum.

On October 29, Cyrus himself entered the city of Babylon and arrested Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Artistic portrait of Cyrus the Great. He founded Persia by uniting the two original Iranian Tribes- the Medes and the Persians. Although he was known to be a great conqueror, who at one point controlled one of the greatest Empires ever seen, he is best remembered for his unprecedented tolerance and magnanimous attitude towards those he defeated.

Before the invasion of Babylon, Cyrus had conquered many kingdoms. Apart from Babylon, Cyrus probably incorporated its subnational entities of his Empire, including Syria, Judea and Arabia Petraea, although no direct evidence of this fact was found.

Lands that Cyrus the Great united under Persian rule.

After taking Babylon, Cyrus the Great appointed himself as "king of Babylon, king of Sumer and Akkad, king of the four corners of the world" in the famous Cyrus Cylinder.

Slavery was abolished by Cyrus the Great after conquering Babylon around ~540 BC.

Cyrus was proclaimed in a cyllinder inscription placed in the foundations of the temple Esagila dedicated to the chief of Babylon and its god Marduk.

"The Cyrus cylinder is a fragmentary clay cylinder with an Akkadian inscription of thirty-five lines discovered in a foundation deposit by A. H. Rassam during his excavations at the site of the Marduk temple in Babylon in 1879... It is inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform. Now housed in the British Museum, it includes a detailed account by Cyrus of his conquest of Babylon in 539BCE and his subsequent humane treatment of his conquered subjects. 

The text of the cylinder denounces Nabonidus as impious and portrays the victorious campaign of Cyrus to please the god Marduk. It describes how Cyrus had improved the lives of the citizens of Babylonia, repatriated displaced peoples and restored temples and shrines of worship. Although some have claimed that the cylinder is a form of human rights charter, historians generally portray the context of a Mesopotamian tradition of long standing.

The Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great. http://aclassicaday.blogspot.com.co/2011/11/fall-of-croesus.html 

The domains of Cyrus the Great make up the largest empire the world had seen. At the end of the regime of Cyrus, the Achaemenid Empire stretched from Asia Minor in the west to northwest areas of India in the east.