Historical Events on July 8

Battle of Caesar's Civil War in the area of the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania)

836 treaty between Naples and Benevento

1444 battle during an Albanian uprising against the Ottoman Empire

Battle fought in 1526

1575 battle in Japan

Battle (1633) during the Thirty Years' War which resulted in a decisive victory for the Swedish army over the Holy Roman Empire army

Swedish-Russian battle in 1657

1659 battle during Russo-Polish War

1705 battle in Tunisia

Decisive battle in the Great Northern War between Tsardom Russia and the Swedish Empire in 1709

1817 battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence

Treaty between Ottoman and Russian empires

1876 treaty between Austria-Hungary and Russia

1937 treaty between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan

1962 French Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1962

Earthquake in Myanmar

1984 Dallas Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1984

Protocol to reduce sulfur emissions

1990 French Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1990

1990 FIFA World Cup Final — championship match of the 1990 FIFA World Cup

July 1996 machete attack in Wolverhampton, UK

Mass shooting in Meridian, Mississippi

2007 British Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 2007

2010 terrorist incident in Baghdad, Iraq

Brazil v Germany (2014 FIFA World Cup) — 2014 FIFA World Cup match

Assassination of Shinzō Abe — 2022 killing of former Japanese prime minister