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Template:On this day - August 7
From Hispanopedia
- 1533 – Birth of Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet, known mainly as the author of La Araucana (d. 1594).
- 1735 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru the Santísima Villa Rica de la Bendita Providencia de San Cayetano de Chone desta Nuestra Nueva Castilla is founded (today Chone, Ecuador).
- 1742 – Death of Francisca Josefa del Castillo, New Granadan nun and writer (b. 1671).
- 1819 – With the victory at the Battle of Boyacá, the territories of the Viceroyalty of New Granada become independent from the Kingdom of Spain.
- 1919 – The Congress of Deputies of Spain approves the report on that country's entry into the League of Nations.
- 1927 – Miguel de la Mora, Mexican Catholic priest, is murdered (b. 1903).
- 1956 – In Cali (Colombia), 7 army trucks loaded with 42 tons of dynamite explode, leaving a crater 50 meters wide and 25 deep. At least 4,000 people die and some 12,000 are injured.
- 1978 – In Honduras, a military triumvirate carries out a coup d'état that deposes General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro.
- 1984 – Death of Marcial Lafuente Estefanía, Spanish writer of Western novels (b. 1903).
- 1987 – The presidents of Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras formalize an agreement for the pacification of the region.
- 2005 – Death of Noel Nicola, Cuban musician, founder of the Nueva Trova Cubana (b. 1946).
- 2006 – In Colombia, Álvaro Uribe takes office as president for the second time for the 2006–2010 term.
- 2014 – In Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos takes office as president for the second time for the 2014–2018 term.
- 2015 – In Argentina the last run of the special train to La Pampa, suspended on August 10, takes place.
