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Lucius Annæus Seneca

• 65 – Seneca, Hispano-Roman philosopher, politician, orator and writer, dies by suicide (b. 4 BC).
• 65 – Lucan, Hispano-Roman poet, nephew of Seneca, accused together with his uncle of involvement in the Pisonian conspiracy, dies by suicide (b. 39).
• 642 – Chindasuinth is crowned monarch of Visigothic Hispania.
• 988 – In León (present-day Spain), Almanzor lays waste to the city and kills all the inhabitants who had not been able to flee.
• 1224 – At the Castle of Agüero (present-day Spain), Ferdinand III of Castile and Rodrigo Rodríguez de Girón, Count of Saldaña and Carrión, sign the Fuero of Agüero (Buenavista de Valdavia).
• 1492 – In Spain, the Catholic Monarchs order that the town of Palos de la Frontera (Huelva) must provide two of the three caravels for the expedition of Christopher Columbus, and issue in his favor the titles of Admiral, Viceroy and Governor of the lands he might discover.
• 1508 – Nicolás de Ovando, administrator of the West Indies, receives from the Spanish King Ferdinand the Catholic the mandate to build churches.
• 1532 – In the Governorate of New Castile (present-day Peru), Francisco Pizarro founds the village of San Francisco de la Buena Esperanza de Payta (the present-day city of Paita, the oldest port in the country).
• 1557 – Lautaro, Mapuche leader, dies during the Battle of Mataquito, in present-day Chile (b. 1534).
• 1551 – Death of Sebastián de Belalcázar, Spanish conquistador (b. 1480).
• 1586 – Birth of Saint Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores de Oliva), Peruvian religious, canonized by the Catholic Church (d. 1617).
• 1657 – In the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands), the British fleet under the command of Robert Blake destroys part of the Fleet of the Indies of Diego de Egües, although the cargo was kept safe.
• 1706 – Death of Alonso de los Ríos y Berriz, rector of the University of San Marcos, who held important ecclesiastical and academic offices in the Viceroyalty of Peru (b. 1619).
• 1725 – In Austria, the Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Philip V, King of Spain, makes peace with Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1726 – In Spain, the Royal Spanish Academy presents King Philip V with the first volume of the Diccionario de autoridades.
• 1802 – In Lorca (Spain), the dam of Puentes II bursts, causing 608 deaths.
• 1859 – Guatemala and the United Kingdom sign the Wyke–Aycinena Treaty to establish the boundaries of Belize.
• 1838 – Nicaragua declares its independence from the Federal Republic of Central America (1824-1839).
• 1863 – At Camarón de Tejeda (Mexico) (during the second French invasion), 3000 Mexican soldiers wipe out 65 invading French soldiers at the Battle of Camarón.
• 1882 – Death of Ramón Mesonero Romanos, Spanish writer (b. 1803).
• 1902 – In Spain, the smallpox vaccination campaign carried out by the city council of Murcia succeeds in halting the epidemic.
• 1918 – Guatemala declares war on Germany.
• 1925 – In Spain, a decree is approved for the canalization of the Guadalquivir River, providing for the construction of a 180 km waterway to Córdoba.
• 1931 – Near Barajas, Madrid airport is inaugurated.
• 1933 – In Peru, President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro is assassinated (b. 1889).
• 1940 – In Bolivia, the government of Enrique Peñaranda issues a decree suspending sine die the granting of immigration permits to Jews.
• 1948 – In Bogotá (Colombia), the OAS is created with the signing of the Charter of the Organization of American States and the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
• 1972 – Death of Clara Campoamor, Spanish lawyer, writer and politician (b. 1888).
• 1976 – In Barcelona (Spain), the film The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin, censored by the Franco regime for 36 years, premieres.
• 1980 – Death of Luis Muñoz Marín, poet, journalist, politician and governor of Puerto Rico between 1949 and 1965 (b. 1898).
• 2011 – Death of Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer, essayist, physicist and painter (b. 1911).
• 2020 – Death of Coral Pellicer, Spanish journalist, writer and actress (b. 1937).
• 2021 – For the first time in the history of Mexico, the Chamber of Deputies strips the sitting governor Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca of immunity.