Template:On this day - August 27

Alexander Farnese

• 1545 – Birth of Alexander Farnese (Duke of Parma), Spanish soldier and diplomat (d. 1592).
• 1557 – After the Battle of Saint-Quentin, in the course of the Italian Wars, troops of the Spanish Empire finally take the city of Saint-Quentin.
• 1611 – Death of Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish musician, composer and chapel master (b. 1548).
• 1635 – Death of Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio, one of the most important poets and playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age and, by the extent of his work, one of the most prolific authors of world literature (b. 1562).
• 1664 – Death of Francisco de Zurbarán, painter of the Spanish Golden Age (b. 1597).
• 1758 – Death of Barbara of Braganza, Spanish Queen consort (b. 1711).
• 1825 – The Uruguayan Orientales decree the independence of the Banda Oriental of the country from Brazil, after the victory of the uprising led by the so-called Group of the Thirty-Three.
• 1828 – Uruguay is formally proclaimed an independent nation in the preliminary peace talks between the Empire of Brazil and Argentina.
• 1858 – In the Toledo locality of Guarrazar (Spain) a second Visigothic treasure is found.
• 1870 – Birth of Amado Nervo, Mexican poet and prose writer (d. 1919).
• 1885 – In Lima (Peru), the medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión has himself inoculated with blood infected with Bartonella bacilliformis in order to contribute to the study and management of Carrión's disease.
• 1920 – The first radio broadcast is made in Argentina (this day is celebrated every year as Broadcasting Day).
• 1924 – Telephone service throughout Spanish territory is awarded to the Compañía Telefónica de España.
• 1975 – In Madrid (Spain) the weeklies Destino, Posible and Cambio 16 are seized by court order under the new anti-terrorism law.
• 1977 – The Institute of Hispanic Culture is renamed the Ibero-American Cooperation Center, later merging with the Hispano-Arab Institute of Culture to give rise to the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
• 1992 – King Juan Carlos and Prime Minister Felipe González sign the reform of article 13.2 of the Constitution on the political participation of foreigners, the first amendment of the Spanish Magna Carta.
• 2001 – The Congress of the Republic of Peru approves lifting the constitutional immunity of former president Alberto Fujimori in order to formally charge him with crimes against humanity.
• 2009 – Death of Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Cortés, Spanish professor, politician and lawyer (b. 1913).
• 2010 – Death of Popy (Diony José López), Venezuelan humorist, clown, presenter and television producer (b. 1946).
• 2011 – Death of María Esther Gilio, Uruguayan journalist, writer, biographer and lawyer with a distinguished career in newspapers of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, Italy, Chile and Venezuela (b. 1928).
• 2014 – Death of Peret, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer (b. 1935).
• 2022 – Death of Manolo Sanlúcar, Spanish composer, guitarist and writer (b. 1943).