Template:On this day - July 8

Carlos, Prince of Asturias

• 1325 – In the Alhambra of Granada (present-day Spain), Muhammad ibn Ismail has his cousin, King Ismail I, murdered; his son Muhammad IV succeeds him on the throne of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.
• 1528 – Birth of Emmanuel Philibert, Savoyard aristocrat, Governor of the Netherlands under Charles V (d. 1580).
• 1538 – Death of Diego de Almagro, known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, Spanish explorer (b. 1475).
• 1545 – Birth of Carlos of Austria (Prince of Asturias), firstborn son of King Philip II and his first wife, the infanta Maria Manuela of Portugal (d. 1568).
• 1563 – In New Spain (present-day Mexico), the Spanish explorer Francisco de Ibarra founds the settlement of Nueva Vizcaya, today Victoria de Durango.
• 1730 – In Valparaíso (Captaincy General of Chile), at 4:45 in the morning, an earthquake and tsunami strikes, leaving 300 dead.
• 1811 – Birth of Luis González Bravo, Spanish academician and politician, president of the Council of Ministers between 1843 and 1844 (d. 1871).
• 1887 – In Colombia, the government of Rafael Núñez closes the newspaper El Espectador for the first time.
• 1989 – In Argentina, Carlos Menem assumes the presidency of the nation.
• 1994 – In the Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain), fragments of Homo antecessor are discovered at the site known as Gran Dolina.
• 1984 – Death of Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Spanish historian and politician, minister during the Second Republic and president of its Government in exile (b. 1893).
• 1984 – Death of Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet, teacher and writer of the Generation of '27 (b. 1896).
• 1984 – Death of Julián Murguía, Uruguayan writer, journalist, editor, politician and agronomist (b. 1930).
• 1995 – In Argentina, Carlos Menem begins his second term of government as president.
• 2021 – In Caracas (Venezuela) the bloody clashes of Cota 905 between police forces and criminal gangs begin.