Template:On this day - August 28

Pedro Navarro

• 1528 – Death of Pedro Navarro, Spanish sailor, soldier and engineer (b. 1460).
• 1565 – The Spanish fleet lands in Florida, where they found San Agustín, the oldest city of European origin in the continental territory of the United States.
• 1645 – Death of Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, writer and poet (b. 1583).
• 1673 – The Prince of Montesacro lands on the Peñón de Alhucemas with a squadron.
• 1744 – Birth of Agustín de Pedrayes, Spanish mathematician (d. 1815).
• 1784 – Death of Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713).
• 1816 – In present-day Uruguay the Portuguese–Brazilian invasion of the Banda Oriental begins, when the army of Carlos Frederico Lecor takes the Fortress of Santa Teresa.
• 1821 – In the city of Buenos Aires (United Provinces of the Río de la Plata) the General Archive of the Nation is created.
• 1828 – Uruguay is declared an independent state through the Preliminary Peace Convention.
• 1929 – By the Treaty of Lima, Peru and Chile define their land borders, reincorporating the province of Tacna into the former and definitively annexing the province of Arica to the latter. Both provinces had been occupied by Chile since the end of the War of the Pacific.
• 1945 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina) the first edition of the newspaper Clarín comes out.
• 1973 – An earthquake of 8.7 degrees strikes the Mexican states of Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala, Morelos and Guerrero, leaving a toll of 1,200 to 3,000 dead.
• 1977 – In the city of Caracas (Venezuela) construction of the Caracas Metro begins.
• 2007 – Death of Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist, columnist, poet, journalist, biographer and essayist (b. 1932).
• 2010 – In Mexico the company Mexicana de Aviación ceases operations.