Template:On this day - December 27

Ferdinand the Catholic

• 1065 – Death of Ferdinand I, Count of Castile and King of León (b. c. 1016).
• 1350 – Birth of John I, King of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica, and Count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdanya (d. 1396).
• 1512 – In Spain, Ferdinand the Catholic promulgates the Reales Ordenanzas dadas para el buen regimiento y tratamiento de los indios (Royal Ordinances for the good government and treatment of the Indians), better known as the Laws of Burgos, forerunners of the Declaration of Human Rights and of international law.
• 1763 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, by which the British return the Port of Havana and the city of Manila (Philippines) to the Spanish.
• 1836 – The government of Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
• 1870 – In Madrid, Juan Prim is the victim of an assassination attempt. Hit by several shots, he died on 30 December.
• 1933 – In the course of the Chaco War, the truce between Bolivia and Paraguay is extended until 15 January for the Christmas holidays.
• 1936 – In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Santander is bombed by the Francoist air force, causing some 70 deaths and 50 injuries among the civilian population. In reprisal, 156 prisoners of the prison ship Alfonso Pérez are murdered that same day.
• 1978 – In Spain, King Juan Carlos I gives royal assent to the Spanish Constitution after the end of the Francoist dictatorship.
• 2002 – On the Cerro del Molinete, Cartagena, Spain, a complete two-meter-high 1st century sculpture of the Emperor Augustus as high priest is found.
• 2008 – In Spain, under the Historical Memory Law, half a million descendants of exiles acquire from that moment the right to apply for Spanish nationality.