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Jorge Manrique

• 1086 – Birth of Ramiro II the Monk, King of Aragon (present-day Spain) (d. 1157).
• 1234 – Ferdinand III of Castile gives the town of Magacela to the Order of Alcántara in exchange for the city of Trujillo (present-day Spain).
• 1312 – Ferdinand IV of Castile grants the Fuero to the towns of Ojacastro, Ezcaray, Valgañón and Zorraquín, in La Rioja (present-day Spain).
• 1479 – Death of Jorge Manrique, poet of the Pre-Renaissance, and Castilian man of arms and letters (b. 1440).
• 1521 – The comunero captains Padilla, Bravo and Maldonado are executed after the Battle of Villalar, during the War of the Communities of Castile.
• 1701 – In Spain, the reign of the House of Bourbon begins with the arrival of Philip V of Spain in Madrid.
• 1711 – The Corps of Military Engineers is created in Spain.
• 1779 – The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins, the third carried out by Spain since the loss of the town.
• 1787 – Birth of Mateo Orfila, Spanish scientist, known as the "father of scientific toxicology" (d. 1853).
• 1788 – Birth of Francisco Abad Moreno, guerrilla fighter during the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain (d. 1827).
• 1808 – In Spain, the people of León lead the first uprising in that country against the invading troops of Napoleon Bonaparte.
• 1815 – Birth of Vicente Fidel López, Argentine historian, lawyer and politician (d. 1903).
• 1834 – Near Jauja (Peru), the leader of the rebel troops, José Rufino Echenique, meets President Luis José de Orbegoso (Embrace of Maquinhuayo) and puts an end to the first Peruvian civil war.
• 1844 – Spain officially recognizes the independence of Chile.
• 1898 – Spain rejects the ultimatum of the United States demanding that it renounce Cuba and declares war on it.
• 1910 – Death of José María Sbarbi y Osuna, Spanish religious, philologist and musicologist (b. 1834).
• 1932 – In Spain, the Spanish aviator Fernando Rein Loring leaves Madrid to make the first trip to Manila (Philippines) in a civilian light aircraft.
• 1965 – In the Dominican Republic, a revolution of armed civilians and soldiers loyal to Juan Bosch (the overthrown constitutional president) deposes the de facto president Donald Reid and restores the Congress of the Republic, but in the face of the armed resistance of General Elías Wessin, the Dominican Civil War breaks out.
• 1992 – In Spain, the Arabist Emilio García Gómez is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
• 1994 – In El Salvador, Armando Calderón Sol, candidate of the ruling party, ARENA, defeats in the presidential elections Rubén Zamora, candidate of a coalition of opposition parties headed by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
• 2009 – Death of Sixto Palavecino, Argentine musician and violinist (b. 1915).
• 2013 – Death of Juan José Manauta, Argentine writer and poet (b. 1919).
• 2017 – Death of Agustín Edwards Eastman, businessman and journalist, known for his role in organizing the 1973 Chilean coup d'état (b. 1927).