Template:On this day - December 3

Alexander Farnese (Duke of Parma)

• 183 BC – Death of Scipio Africanus, Roman politician and general, in exile on his estate at Liternum (b. 236 BC).
• 1552 – Death of Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1506).
• 1592 – Death of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, Spanish soldier and diplomat (b. 1545).
• 1729 – Birth of Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1783).
• 1798 – In Spain, inoculation with the smallpox vaccine begins.
• 1812 – In Spain, French troops occupy Madrid for the second time, in the course of the Napoleonic Invasion.
• 1836 – In Spain, the Cortes agree to negotiate the recognition of the independence of the new States of America.
• 1842 – In Barcelona (Spain), Baldomero Espartero orders the bombardment of the civilian population to put an end to the uprising against his government.
• 1906 – In Spain, the government of Segismundo Moret resigns. Spanish liberalism enters a crisis.
• 1979 – In Havana (Cuba), the first edition of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana opens.
• 1989 – In Venezuela, the first direct elections of governors and mayors are held.
• 1992 – The oil tanker Aegean Sea is wrecked off the coast of La Coruña, causing an ecological disaster of great magnitude.
• 2001 – In Argentina, President Fernando de la Rúa imposes the «corralito» (the restriction on freely withdrawing cash from fixed-term deposits, current accounts and savings accounts).
• 2006 – In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is re-elected in the presidential elections.
• 2011 – In Venezuela, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is born.
• 2012 – In the Philippines, at least 450 people die after the passage of Typhoon Bopha.