On This Day: November 4th

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins.

The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.

The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange; they later jointly reign as William and Mary.

Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (which is nearly destroyed after three days).

Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother - they would later marry.

Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands.

Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.

War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza.

Following Byzantine emperor Anastasius' deposition of Chalcedonian patriarchs and attempts to make Monophysite changes to liturgy, riots break out in Constantinople with a mob trying to proclaim Areobindus as emperor.