📅 Today in HistoryNovember 8

Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.

Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.

The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano".

Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

After being crowned king of Sweden, Christian II gave the order to execute nearly 100 people, mostly noblemen, despite promises of general amnesty.

Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.

Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.

Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.

The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.