Template:On this day - February 13

Mariano José de Larra

• 1352 – The naval Battle of the Bosporus takes place, between a fleet of Venetian and Aragonese ships facing the Genoese.
• 1668 – The Treaty of Lisbon is signed in Lisbon, by which Spain implicitly recognizes the independence of Portugal.
• 1778 – Birth of Fernando Sor, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1839).
• 1801 – In Aranjuez (Spain), Lucien Bonaparte and Manuel Godoy sign the Convention of Aranjuez.
• 1812 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, the first issue of the Aurora de Chile appears, a newspaper financed by the American government and with an openly pro-independence content.
• 1827 – During the war between Argentina and Brazil, the Battle of Bacacay takes place.
• 1828 – Death of Francisco Salvá Campillo, Spanish physician and physicist (b. 1751).
• 1837 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer, considered, together with Espronceda, Bécquer and Rosalía de Castro, the highest point of Spanish literary Romanticism, commits suicide.
• 1929 – In Venezuela, an attempt is made on the life of President Juan Vicente Gómez.
• 1967 – In the National Library of Spain (Madrid), a volume of almost 700 pages with handwritten notes and hand drawings by Leonardo da Vinci is discovered.
• 1968 – Galo Plaza Lasso, former president of Ecuador, is appointed Secretary General of the Organization of American States.
• 1970 – In Argentina, a decree of the Ministry of the Interior places all private radio and television stations under government control.
• 1984 – In Panama, Jorge Illueca assumes the presidency.
• 1998 – Death of José Barraquer, Spanish ophthalmologist who spent most of his professional life in Colombia, recognized worldwide as the "father of modern refractive surgery" (b. 1916).
• 2002 – The 21st edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCO, opens in Madrid.
• 2016 – Death of Rafael Moreno Valle, Mexican military physician and politician, governor of Puebla from 1969 to 1972 (b. 1917).
• 2023 – Death of José María Gil-Robles, Spanish lawyer and politician who presided over the European Parliament from 1997 to 1999 (b. 1935).