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• 529 – In Rome, the emperor Justinian I sanctions the first volume of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the most influential legal text in history.
• 1234 – Death of Sancho VII, known as "the Strong", King of Navarre (b. 1154).
• 1302 – Death of Muhammad II, second sultan of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain) between 1273 and 1302 (b. 1235).
• 1506 – Birth of Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic saint, presbyter, religious and missionary, member of the founding group of the Society of Jesus and collaborator of its founder Ignatius of Loyola (d. 1552).
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches Cebu (present-day Philippines) during the first circumnavigation of the globe, financed by the Crown of Spain.
• 1611 – Death of Antonio Pérez, Royal Secretary and secretary of the Council of State of the King of Spain Philip II, who was found guilty on charges of treason against the Crown and of murdering Juan de Escobedo (b. 1540).
• 1614 – Death of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco, Spanish painter of the Renaissance of Cretan descent (b. 1541).
• 1621 – In Spain, the aristocrat Pedro Girón is taken prisoner, which begins the persecution of the supporters of Lerma.
• 1629 – Birth of Juan José de Austria, Spanish politician and soldier (d. 1679).
• 1658 – Death of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish writer (b. 1595).
• 1813 – In New Granada (present-day Colombia), Manuel Rodríguez Torices (president of the Free State of Cartagena) makes the coastal locality of Barranquilla a "villa" and raises it to capital of the Department of Tierradentro or Barlovento.
• 1817 – In the City of Barcelona (in present-day Venezuela), the Casa Fuerte defended by Spanish forces falls, with between 700 and 1200 people dying.
• 1822 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Society of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is founded.
• 1823 – The Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, led by the Duke of Angoulême, cross the Pyrenees, entering Spain to restore the absolutism of Ferdinand VII.
• 1825 – In Bolivia, the Spanish colonel José María Valdez surrenders, ending the war of independence in Upper Peru.
• 1877 – Death of Cecilia Böhl de Faber, Spanish writer and folklorist, known by the pen name of Fernán Caballero (b. 1796).
• 1889 – Birth of Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, diplomat and pedagogue, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 (d. 1957).
• 1906 – The representatives of Spain, Germany, France and England sign the Act of Algeciras on Morocco, by which Spain acquires obligations to exercise a protectorate of Morocco in the area.
• 1928 – In Venezuela, a civil-military insurrection led by Rafael Alvarado Franco rises against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.
• 1936 – In Spain, Niceto Alcalá Zamora is removed as president of the Spanish Republic.
• 1956 – Spain renounces the obligations acquired in the protectorate of Morocco.
• 2005 – In Mexico, the political immunity of the mayor of Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is withdrawn, in one of the most controversial political and legal episodes in recent Mexican history.
• 2009 – In Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity in the cases of the Barrios Altos massacres and the La Cantuta University, carried out during his term by the Grupo Colina.