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- 1683
- The town of Rye reverts back from Fairfield County, Connecticut, to Westchester County, New York.
- 1845
- In Alta California, Don Pío Pico grants the Bennett Tract to Narciso Bennett.
- 1849
- Fort Hamer is established in Florida.
- 1899
- The United Kingdom takes control of Barotseland, adding it to the British Empire as part of Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia.
- 1911
- Chula Vista is incorporated as a city in California.
- 1912
- Independent Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1960
- Mauritania gains independence from France.
- 2001
- American Village is completed in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
- 2007
- The National Palace Museum of Korea relocates to the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul.
- 2011
- Line 1 of the Almaty Metro is completed in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 28, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 28 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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