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Don Rodrigo

• 711 – In the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo, while King Don Rodrigo is fighting the Vascones, Tariq ibn Ziyad reaches Tarifa (Cádiz) with between 7000 and 12,000 men and defeats the forces of Sancho, Don Rodrigo's nephew, thus beginning the Muslim occupation of the Iberian Peninsula.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan dies at the Battle of Mactan at the hands of islanders led by Lapu-Lapu, enemies of the Rajah of Cebu (in the present-day Philippines) (b. 1480).
• 1522 – At the Battle of Bicocca, the combined forces of the Kingdom of Spain and the Papal States defeat the French and Venetian armies.
• 1539 – In the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar refound the town of Santa Fe de Bogotá.
• 1565 – On the Island of Cebu (Philippines), Miguel López de Legazpi founds the first Spanish settlement in the Philippine archipelago.
• 1706 – The Franco-Spanish troops of Philip V lift the Siege of Barcelona during the War of Succession.
• 1813 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, rebel forces surprise the royalist army at Yerbas Buenas, halting its advance.
• 1821 – In the area of León (Argentina), north of San Salvador de Jujuy, a group of gauchos from Jujuy under the command of Colonel José Ignacio Gorriti defeat the Spanish army (Great Day of Jujuy).
• 1827 – Death of Joaquín Blake, president of the Council of Regency of Spain and the Indies, chief of the General Staff and Spanish Captain General (b. 1759).
• 1838 – In Costa Rica, the village of Grecia is founded.
• 1852 – In the city of Córdoba (Argentina), the revolution headed by Colonel Pizarro overthrows Governor Manuel López, who had been in Government since 1835.
• 1870 – Death of José Benjumeda y Gens, Spanish physician and university professor (b. 1787).
• 1887 – Birth of Toribio Echeverría, Spanish writer, politician and humanist (d. 1968).
• 1927 – In Chile, General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (vice president of the Republic) founds the Carabineros de Chile.
• 1928 – In Spain, the National Tourism Board is founded.
• 1965 – In the Dominican Republic, U.S. marines invade this sovereign country to put down the popular uprising led by Francisco Camaño.
• 1977 – Héctor Germán Oesterheld, comics writer and writer, is "disappeared" during the last Argentine dictatorship (b. 1919).
• 1984 – In Barcelona (Spain), the first Ibiza car rolls off the assembly line of the company SEAT.
• 1988 – Death of Guillermo Haro Barraza, Mexican astronomer, researcher and academic (b. 1913).
• 1994 – The 10th Congress of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language agrees to reorder the digraphs "Ch" and "Ll" in the place the universal Latin alphabet assigned them, although they still formed part of the Spanish alphabet.
• 1997 – Death of Dulce María Loynaz, writer and poet, considered one of the leading figures of Cuban literature (b. 1902).
• 1999 – Death of Raúl H. Castagnino, Argentine teacher, literary critic and writer (b. 1914).
• 2010 – The former Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega is extradited to France from a prison in Miami (United States) to be tried on charges of money laundering.
• 2011 – In New York, the United Nations Security Council unanimously approves Resolution 1979, extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.
• 2014 – Death of Theo Constante, Ecuadorian teacher, painter, muralist and sculptor (b. 1934).