| 10 November 1443 | Hungary, Ottoman Empire [wars] | A crusading army led by János Hunyadi, Voivode (governor) of Transylvania, defeats the Ottoman Turks at Niš, Bulgaria. He subsequently also takes the city of Sofia. |
| 10 November 1444 | Ottoman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Hungary [political events] | The Ottoman sultan Murad II destroys the crusading army at Varna, Bulgaria. János Hunyadi, Voivode (governor) of Transylvania, escapes; cardinal Cesarini disappears; and King Wladyslaw III (Warnenczyk) of Poland and Hungary is killed. |
| 10 November 1483 | Saxony [births and deaths] | Martin Luther, great German theologian, preacher, and biblical translator, instigator of the Protestant Reformation, born in Eisleben, Saxony (–1546). |
| 10 November 1630 | France [political events] | In the ‘Day of Dupes’, France's Cardinal Richelieu overthrows the conspiracy of the queen mother Marie de' Medici and the heir presumptive Gaston, Duke of Orléans, against him. Marillac, the queen mother's servant, is executed and Marie, banished from Paris, France, takes refuge in Brussels. As a result Richelieu is in a stronger position than ever before, and the Spanish faction in France is vanquished. |
| 10 November 1759 | Württemberg [births and deaths] | Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German dramatist and poet, born in Marbach, Württemberg (now Germany) (–1805). |
| 10 November 1892 | Central America, France [canals] | The Panama Canal financial scandal breaks in France and the canal's builder Ferdinand de Lesseps and his associates are committed for trial for corruption and mismanagement. |
| 10 November 1937 | Brazil [revolution] | The Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas organizes a coup that annuls the 1934 constitution and sets up the totalitarian Estado Novo (New State). |
| 10 November 1938 | Turkey [births and deaths] | Kemal Atatürk, Turkish soldier, statesman, and reformer, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey 1923–38, dies in Istanbul, Turkey (57). |
| 10 November 1959 | British East Africa [law and government] | The ending of the Mau Mau emergency in Kenya is officially announced by the government (a proclamation to this effect is signed by the governor of Kenya on 12 January 1960). |
| 10 November 1975 | Angola, Portugal [decolonization] | Angola gains its independence from Portugal with Agostinho Neto as president, but civil war breaks out between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). |
| 10 November 1982 | USSR [births and deaths] | Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–82, dies in Moscow, USSR (75). |
