Template:On this day - April 29

Ignacio Lucas Albarracín

• 1326 – Death of Blanche of Burgundy, queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1296).
• 1483 – The conquest of Gran Canaria is completed after five years of campaigns led by the Kingdom of Castile.
• 1521 – In the city of Tenochtitlan, the conquest of the territory that would become New Spain begins, led by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his army.
• 1587 – In the Bay of Cádiz, during the Anglo-Spanish War, Francis Drake leads the first of several naval raids against the Invincible Armada, destroying a large part of the Spanish fleet moored in the bay and forcing Philip II of Spain to delay his plans to invade England for more than a year.
• 1738 – Death of Fray Francisco de Berganza y Arce, Spanish Benedictine religious and historian (b. 1663).
• 1814 – In Spain, during the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, the French withdraw from Barcelona.
• 1824 – Birth of Francisco Pi y Margall, Spanish politician, essayist and historian, president of the Executive Power of the Spanish First Republic (d. 1901).
• 1833 – In Asturias (Spain), the Infante Carlos María Isidro refuses to recognize his niece Isabella II of Spain as queen, giving rise to the First Carlist War.
• 1838 – Birth of Elisa Zamacois, Spanish soprano, actress and pianist (d. 1915).
• 1900 – In Spain, the Extremadura is launched, the first Spanish warship after the destruction of the squadron in Cuba in 1898.
• 1902 – In the United States, Congress votes, and President Roosevelt signs, a law prohibiting Chinese immigration from the Philippines.
• 1909 – Death of Amalia Domingo Soler, Hispano-Cuban writer and spiritist (b. 1835).
• 1922 – In Spain, Santiago Ramón y Cajal retires from his academic duties and is appointed honorary rector of the University of Madrid.
• 1923 – In Spain, the last elections of deputies to the Cortes of the Spanish monarchy before the Civil War are held.
• 1926 – Death of Ignacio Lucas Albarracín, Argentine jurist and lawyer (b. 1850).
• 1969 – In the municipal archive of Alba de Tormes, a Spanish town in the province of Salamanca, important historical documents are found, among them the text of the oath of King Alfonso VI at Santa Gadea.
• 1983 – The Argentine Military Junta declares dead all those who disappeared in the "dirty war".
• 1991 – The UN approves the self-determination of Western Sahara.
• 1994 – In Spain, Luis Roldán (former director of the Guardia Civil) goes on the run.
• 2000 – Death of Antonio Buero Vallejo, Spanish playwright and painter (b. 1916).
• 2006 – Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela sign the Peoples' Trade Treaty.
• 2022 – Death of Roberto Lecaros, Chilean jazz musician and composer of music for film, theater and popular music (b. 1944).