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Joaquín Sorolla

• 997 – The troops of Almanzor sack and destroy the city of Santiago de Compostela (present-day Spain), carrying off as booty the bells of the church.
• 1519 – The expedition of Magellan and Elcano sets sail from Seville (Spain); it discovers the passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and ends up circumnavigating the world for the first time.
• 1557 – At the Battle of Saint-Quentin, the troops of Philip II of Spain, made up of Spanish, Flemish, German and English contingents, defeat those of Henry II of France.
• 1647 – Death of Rodrigo Caro, Spanish historian and writer of the Golden Age (b. 1573).
• 1678 – With the Peace of Nijmegen, France ends the war it was waging against Spain, the Netherlands, the German states and Denmark.
• 1697 – The Count of Corzana surrenders Barcelona to the troops of the Duke of Vendôme, who had been besieging it for two months, in the course of the Nine Years' War.
• 1757 – Birth of Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva y Astengo, Spanish writer and politician (d. 1837).
• 1759 – Charles III is proclaimed King of Spain.
• 1923 – Death of Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (b. 1863).
• 1951 – Birth of Juan Manuel Santos, politician and economist, President of Colombia between 2010 and 2018, Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.
• 1963 – In Spain bills are approved to establish a regime of autonomy in Fernando Poo and Río Muni (Equatorial Guinea).
• 1979 – Mauritania renounces its part of Western Sahara, ceding it to the Polisario Front through the Algiers Agreement.
• 2005 – In Chile, a judge indicts the wife and one of the sons of Augusto Pinochet for tax fraud.
• 2020 – Death of Jacobo Langsner, Romanian-born naturalized Uruguayan playwright and writer (b. 1927).