Template:On this day - April 11

José Patiño Rosales

• 1431 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain), a terrible earthquake destroys the town of Atarfe.
• 1645 – Birth of Juan del Valle y Caviedes, poet and playwright born in Spain who lived almost all his life in Peru, known as "the Poet of the Ribera" (d. 1697).
• 1666 – Birth of José Patiño Rosales, intendant of the Spanish Navy and Secretary of the Navy and the Indies (d. 1736).
• 1713 – During the War of the Spanish Succession, the first Treaty of Utrecht is signed between the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Duchy of Savoy and the United Provinces.
• 1817 – The Battle of San Félix takes place, part of the Guayana Campaign in the Venezuelan War of Independence.
• 1828 – In the south of the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the city of Bahía Blanca is founded.
• 1831 – At the Salsipuedes creek (Uruguay), General Fructuoso Rivera (1784-1854) entertains his Artiguist Charrúa allies with an open-air meal. His nephew Bernabé Rivera (1795-1832) surrounds them with 1200 soldiers and they kill several dozen (Betrayal of Salsipuedes). Several hundred prisoners are sold as slaves.
• 1861 – Death of Francisco González Bocanegra, poet and playwright, author of the lyrics of the Mexican National Anthem (b. 1824).
• 1865 – Death of Antonio Alcalá Galiano, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1789).
• 1856 – In Rivas (Nicaragua), the Second Battle of Rivas is fought, in which Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica, dies. The Costa Rican army defeats the U.S. filibusters led by William Walker.
• 1899 – The Treaty of Paris signed in 1898 comes into force, by which Spain is forced to cede Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam and the Philippines to the United States after losing the Spanish–American War.
• 1936 – The film Morena Clara, directed by Florián Rey and starring Imperio Argentina, premieres throughout Spain; it is the greatest box-office success of Spanish cinema up to that time.
• 1944 – In New York, Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo is performed in full for the first time.
• 1945 – The Chamber of Deputies of Chile approves declaring war on Japan.
• 2002 – In Venezuela, a coup d'état takes place against President Hugo Chávez.
• 2002 – In the streets of Cali (Colombia), the FARC guerrillas (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnap 12 deputies of the Valle assembly.
• 2009 – Death of Corín Tellado, Spanish writer of romantic fiction, who with more than 400,000,000 copies of her novels sold was recognized as the best-selling author in the Spanish language and the most-read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes (b. 1927).