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Template:On this day - December 23
From Hispanopedia
- 1292 – In Palencia (present-day Spain), the Hospital de la Herrada grants the village of Quintanilla de Onsoña its foral charter.
- 1524 – In Valencia (Spain), the regent Doña Germaine of Foix grants a pardon to the perayres.
- 1569 – In Spain, the corregidor Juan Rodríguez de Villafuerte Maldonado leaves Granada with 9,000 foot soldiers to fight the rebel Moriscos, heading for Güéjar Sierra.
- 1644 – Birth of Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Spanish organist and composer (d. 1728).
- 1788 – In Spain, after the death of Charles III, the Royal Council proclaims Charles IV King.
- 1808 – In Spain, guarded by the French army, Joseph I Bonaparte accedes to the throne, granted to him by his brother Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1814 – Death of María de la Consolación Azlor (Countess of Bureta), Spanish heroine (b. 1775).
- 1881 – Birth of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 (d. 1958).
- 1906 – Alfonso XIII of Spain settles by arbitral award the border conflict between Honduras and Nicaragua, defining the boundary line between the two countries on the Caribbean side.
- 1910 – In Spain, the Government of Canalejas approves the «padlock law», which prevents new religious orders from being established in Spain without the express authorization of the Council of Ministers.
- 1925 – In Madrid (Spain), Ramón Menéndez Pidal is elected director of the Real Academia Española after the death of Antonio Maura.
- 1933 – In Uruguay, the Pan-American Conference, attended by members of the League of Nations, closes.
- 1938 – In the course of the Spanish Civil War, Francoist troops enter Catalonia after breaking through the Republican lines at several points.
- 1972 – In Nicaragua, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake on the Richter scale destroys the capital, Managua, causing more than 10 000 deaths.
- 1989 – U.S. troops invade Panama, after General Manuel Noriega had declared a state of war against the United States on 15 December.
- 2011 – Death of Ricardo Krebs, Chilean historian (b. 1918).
