| 7 November 1491 | Hungary [treaties] | Maximilian, King of the Romans, is unable to pay his mercenaries and abandons his attempt to conquer Hungary. He recognizes Wladyslaw (Ulászló) II as king of Hungary in the Treaty of Bratislava, which also states that the throne is to revert to the Habsburgs if Wladyslaw dies without an heir. |
| 7 November 1515 | France, Swiss Confederation [treaties] | The Swiss Confederation makes peace with France by the Treaty of Geneva; the Swiss recognize King Francis I of France's right to the Italian duchy of Milan and in return are allowed to keep most of their southern conquests (equivalent to modern Ticino canton). |
| 7 November 1659 | Spain, France, Spanish Netherlands [treaties] | The Peace of the Pyrenees ends the long-running war between Spain and France. France obtains Roussillon, Cerdagne, most of Artois, Gravelines, and several fortresses in Hainault and the Duchy of Luxembourg. Spain resigns her claims to Alsace, but has her sovereignty in Franche-Comté confirmed and retains the rest of her possessions in the Spanish Netherlands. Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, is pardoned and a marriage alliance is negotiated between King Louis XIV of France and Maria Theresa, King Philip IV of Spain's eldest daughter. She renounces her claim to the Spanish throne in return for a dowry. |
| 7 November 1687 | Ottoman Empire [revolution] | As a result of Ottoman defeats in the war with Austria, an army mutiny takes place in Constantinople, in which Mehmed IV is deposed in favour of Süleyman II. Fazil Mustafa Pasa Köprülü becomes second Vizier and is promoted, in 1689, to Grand Vizier. |
| 7 November 1848 | USA [elections] | MexicanAmerican War hero Zachary Taylor is elected as US president and Millard Fillmore as vice-president. |
| 7 November 1867 | France, Poland [births and deaths] | Marie Curie (born Sklodowska), Polish-born French physicist who, with her husband Pierre Curie, discovers polonium and radium, and who wins the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911, born in Warsaw, Poland (–1934). |
| 7 November 1876 | USA [elections] | In the US presidential election, Samuel Tilden (Democrat) secures 184 out of the 185 electoral votes required, against Rutherford B Hayes (Republican) with 165, but 20 votes are in dispute (settled by an electoral commission on 29 January 1877). |
| 7 November 1879 | Russian Empire, Ukraine [births and deaths] | Leon Trotsky (adopted name of Lev Davidovitch Bronstein), communist theorist and activist, a leader in Russia's October Revolution of 1917, born in Ianovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire (–1940). |
| 7 November 1916 | USA [human rights] | Montana voters make Jeanette Rankin the first woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives. |
| 7 November 1918 | Germany [political events] | A republic is proclaimed in Bavaria, Germany, by the socialist Kurt Eisner. |
| 7 November 1956 | Egypt, UK, France [diplomacy] | Britain and France accept a ceasefire in the Suez Crisis in Egypt, but Britain declares it will evacuate its troops only on the arrival of the United Nations (UN) emergency force. |
| 7 November 1973 | USA [legislation] | The US Congress overrides President Richard Nixon's veto and passes the War Powers Act, restricting the ability of the president to maintain troops overseas without congressional approval. |
| 7 November 1990 | Ireland [elections] | Mary Robinson wins the Irish presidential election to become the country's first woman president. |
| 7 November 1992 | USA [elections] | Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (Democrat), the governor of Arkansas, wins the US presidential election with 370 electoral college votes. President George Bush (Republican) gains 168 electoral votes and H Ross Perot (Independent) fails to win any, although he takes 19% of the popular vote. In the Congressional elections the Democrats retain control of both chambers. |
