Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/November/November 27

• 511: death of Clovis I, first king of the Franks
• 639: death of Saint Acarius, bishop of Tournai
• 1382: in the Battle of Roosebeke, the French and Castilian forces, led by King Charles VI of France, defeated the Flemish and English troops: Philip van Artevelde, commander of Ghent, is one of the main victims
• 1474: death of Guillaume Dufay, composer
• 1674: death of Franciscus van den Enden, teacher of Baruch de Spinoza and an early promotor of democracy
• 1769: birth of Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, first regent of Belgium before the accession of King Leopold I
• 1819: birth of Paul Jean Clays, painter
• 1830: death of André Parmentier, early American landscape architect
• 1916: death of Emile Verhaeren, early Symbolist poet