Template:On this day - December 10

Octavio Paz

• 1348 – In the Kingdom of Aragon (present-day Spain), the King Peter IV defeats the Union of Valencia by force of arms.
• 1606 – Construction of Seville Cathedral in Spain is completed after 203 years of work.
• 1710 – In the War of the Spanish Succession, the troops of Philip V defeat the allies at the Battle of Villaviciosa.
• 1809 – In the course of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, the city of Girona capitulates after a seven-month French siege.
• 1833 – In Nicaragua, a decree is signed on the project to build an interoceanic canal.
• 1898 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Spanish–American War, by which Spain is forced to cede Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States.
• 1910 – Death of Manuel Sales y Ferré, Spanish archaeologist, philosopher and historian (b. 1843).
• 1945 – In Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón and Evita marry in the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in La Plata.
• 1945 – Death of Manuel de Argüelles, Spanish politician and banker (b. 1875).
• 1945 – The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1955 – Spain becomes a member of the United Nations.
• 1971 – The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1990 – The Mexican poet Octavio Paz receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1993 – In Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), UNESCO declares the Spanish «Way of Saint James» a World Heritage Site.
• 2006 – Death of Augusto Pinochet, Chilean soldier, dictator between 1973 and 1990 (b. 1915).