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Template:On this day - December 17
From Hispanopedia
- 1483 – In Mondoñedo (Spain), Marshal Pardo de Cela is beheaded, his wife having failed to arrive in time with the royal pardon she was bringing.
- 1500 – Christopher Columbus is received by the Catholic Monarchs after returning in chains from the island of Hispaniola.
- 1563 – Birth of Diego Pérez de Mesa, Spanish humanist (d. 1632).
- 1718 – In the course of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, Great Britain declares war on Spain.
- 1771 – In San Juan (Puerto Rico), the decree is issued to constitute and establish Cabo Rojo as a municipality of Puerto Rico.
- 1790 – Beneath the Zócalo of Mexico City, the Aztec Sun Stone is discovered.
- 1819 – In the town of Angostura (in present-day Venezuela), Simón Bolívar proclaims the creation of the first Gran Colombia, a union of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and the Captaincy General of Venezuela.
- 1830 – Death of Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan soldier and politician, a key figure in the Hispanic American independence movements.
- 1965 – Death of María Teresa Vera, Cuban singer, composer and guitarist (b. 1895).
- 1974 – In Santiago de Chile, the Military Government Junta names the dictator Augusto Pinochet «President of Chile».
- 1978 – Birth of Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician.
- 1981 – In Spain, the Congress of Deputies approves the first Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia.
- 1983 – In Madrid (Spain), 82 people die in the Alcalá 20 nightclub fire.
- 1984 – In New York, UNESCO declares the historic center of Córdoba (Spain) a World Heritage Site.
- 1986 – In Bogotá, Guillermo Cano Isaza, director of the newspaper El Espectador, is murdered. The murder is attributed to members of the Medellín Cartel.
- 1996 – In Lima (Peru), terrorists of the Túpac Amaru take over the residence of the Japanese ambassador and take 800 people hostage.
- 2007 – In Montevideo (Uruguay), the former dictator Gregorio Álvarez (aged 82) is convicted of repeated crimes of forced disappearance, crimes against humanity and unconstitutional crimes.
- 2014 – Barack Obama acknowledges the failure of the policy of economic blockade against the island and the need to "lift the anchor of the past", easing the blockade of Cuba.
