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- 1542
- King Carlos I of Spain establishes the Viceroyalty of Peru.
- 1645
- The College of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary is renamed to the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
- 1652
- The Massachusetts Bay Colony creates Yorkshire County in Maine after southern Maine towns acknowledge Massachusetts jurisdiction to territory within the new boundaries it declared on May 26, 1652. The claim conflicts with a 1635 grant of Maine to Ferdinando Gorges.
- 1833
- The Burgos plan takes effect, reorganizing Spain into 15 historic regions.
- 1836
- A windmill in Schijndel, Netherlands, collapses in a heavy storm.
- 1892
- Adalbert Ostermann opens Marien-Apotheke in Berlin.
- 1953
- Tram service ends along the Great North Road in Auckland.
- 1986
- Glamorgan (Rhoose) Airport is renamed to Cardiff–Wales Airport in Rhoose, Wales.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 20, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 20 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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