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Template:On this day - August 3
From Hispanopedia
- 1179 – Death of Sancha Sánchez of Pamplona, wife of King Sancho VI of Navarre (b. 10th century).
- 1342 – The siege of Algeciras begins during the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage to America from the port of Palos de la Frontera in Spain.
- 1492 – The deadline set by the Catholic Monarchs in the Edict of Granada, by which the Jews who refused to be baptized in the Catholic faith had to leave Spain, expires.
- 1605 – At Durazzo (present-day Albania), Álvaro II de Bazán seizes and sacks the city, which was held by the Ottoman Empire, and takes an immense booty.
- 1655 – In Sinaloa (Kingdom of Nueva Galicia, present-day Mexico) the town of El Rosario is founded.
- 1704 – At Gibraltar (Spain) British naval forces begin the bombardment of the Spanish garrison.
- 1713 – The first working session of the Royal Spanish Academy is held in Madrid (Spain) in the very house of its founder, Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco.
- 1740 – In the present-day Valparaíso Region (Captaincy General of Chile) the town of San Felipe de Aconcagua is founded.
- 1808 – In Zaragoza (Spain) the French invaders begin the first siege of Zaragoza, in which they are defeated.
- 1814 – In the Real Audiencia of Cuzco, Mateo Pumacahua and other pro-independence figures create the Government Junta, the first and only one in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
- 1907 – In Barcelona (Spain) automobile license plate number 1 is issued, for a vehicle of the Hispano-Suiza company.
- 1908 – Venezuela breaks off diplomatic relations with the Netherlands.
- 1935 – In the Sierra de Ronda (Spain), the famous Spanish bandit Benito Vázquez Ortiz is arrested.
- 1950 – In Venezuela, strong earthquakes destroy the city of El Tocuyo.
- 1974 – At Hausa (Spanish Sahara), an attack is carried out by a commando of the FLU, a terrorist group created by Morocco.
- 1979 – In Equatorial Guinea, a coup d'état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema overthrows his uncle, the dictator Francisco Macías Nguema.
- 1984 – In Uruguay the Naval Club Pact is signed.
- 2004 – Bolivia and Peru sign a Treaty of Economic and Social Cooperation.
- 2014 – Death of Manuel Martínez Carril, Uruguayan film critic, journalist and teacher (b. 1938).
