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Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

• 1500 – In the Ionian Islands, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Great Captain, leads an important Hispano-Venetian victory over the Ottoman Empire, taking Cephalonia.
• 1521 – A fire destroys three quarters of Oviedo (Spain).
• 1536 – In present-day Colombia, Sebastián de Belalcázar founds the city of Popayán.
• 1568 – In Granada (Spain), the Morisco rebellion in Las Alpujarras breaks out after the promulgation of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1567.
• 1591 – Philip II issues a general pardon for those who mutinied during the Alterations of Aragon and respects the essence of the Aragonese fueros.
• 1598 – In the Kingdom of Chile, the governor Martín García is killed when ambushed by Mapuche forces led by Pelantaro during the Battle of Curalaba.
• 1638 – Birth of Tomás de la Cerda y Aragón, Spanish aristocrat and governor (d. 1692).
• 1649 – Birth of Manuel de Solórzano, Spanish missionary and Jesuit (d. 1684).
• 1680 – Morocco and the Netherlands sign a treaty of alliance to encourage Moroccan piracy in the Mediterranean against Spain.
• 1726 – In Uruguay, the city of Montevideo is declared founded.
• 1734 – In Spain, a fire destroys the Royal Alcázar of Madrid.
• 1752 – Public street lighting is introduced for the first time in Spain in Barcelona, where, coinciding with Christmas Eve, more than 1,500 oil lamps were lit in the streets and squares of the city.
• 1813 – During the Mexican War of Independence, the Battle of Lomas de Santa María takes place, in which the insurgent troops commanded by José María Morelos are defeated by the Spanish troops of Commander Agustín de Iturbide.
• 1822 – In Pasto (present-day Colombia), on the direct orders of Simón Bolívar, an indiscriminate massacre of the civilian population (mostly indigenous) begins, lasting 24, 25 and 26 December 1822, known as the Black Christmas.
• 1929 – In Argentina, the Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen survives an assassination attempt unharmed.
• 1950 – Death of Ricardo Seminario y Aramburú, Peruvian diplomat and soldier, first and only governor of the self-proclaimed Federal State of Loreto of 1896.
• 1950 – Spain and the United States resume diplomatic relations.
• 2016 – Death of Gil Parrondo, Spanish art director, winner of two Oscars (b. 1921).
• 2017 – The president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, pardons the former head of state Alberto Fujimori, who had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity.