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Juan de Mariana

• 1267 – The Treaty of Badajoz is signed, thus defining the border between Portugal and Castile.
• 1486 – In Frankfurt am Main (present-day Germany), Maximilian I of Habsburg is elected King of the Romans.
• 1521 – The Edict of Worms is read publicly in Burgos, by which King Charles I of Spain condemned 249 prominent comuneros: to death if they were laymen, and to other penalties if they were clergy.
• 1624 – Death of Juan de Mariana, Spanish Jesuit, theologian and historian of the Golden Age (b. 1536).
• 1827 – During the war between Argentina and Brazil, the Battle of Ombú takes place, in which General Mansilla defeats a Brazilian division.
• 1835 – At Barranca Yaco, Córdoba (Argentina), a party of militiamen led by Captain Santos Pérez murders General Juan Facundo Quiroga.
• 1841 – In San Salvador, capital city of El Salvador, a Constituent Assembly decrees the founding of the University of El Salvador.
• 1848 – Death of Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, Uruguayan cleric, architect, rancher, naturalist and botanist (b. 1771).
• 1866 – In Honduras, the national flag is adopted.
• 1881 – Arrival of the Salesians in Utrera (Spain).
• 1894 – The zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma, with music by Tomás Bretón and libretto by Ricardo de la Vega, premieres at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid.
• 1903 – The Cuban government grants the United States a naval base on the island, which it had occupied militarily after the Spanish–American War.
• 1928 – The hotelier Rodolfo Lussnigg coins the name Costa del Sol for the tourist promotion of the Mediterranean coasts of Spain.
• 1934 – First flight over Madrid (Spain) of the La Cierva autogyro, piloted by its inventor.
• 1936 – In Spain, the Popular Front wins the election.
• 1937 – The Falange Española organizes the burning of ballot boxes in Seville and Córdoba, in commemoration of the previous elections.
• 1945 – In the Philippines, the United States army attacks the bastion of Corregidor.
• 1953 – Juan Domingo Perón advocates a union between Argentina and Chile to form the nucleus of a United States of Hispanic America.
• 1959 – Fidel Castro is appointed Prime Minister of Cuba, with which the Cuban Revolution becomes fully established.
• 1984 – Fidel Castro, accompanied by Daniel Ortega, makes a five-hour stopover in Spain, the Cuban president's first visit to a capital of Western Europe.
• 1991 – Death of Luis Escobar, Spanish actor, theater director and film director (b. 1905).
• 2020 – The Central Electoral Board of the Dominican Republic suspends nationwide elections for the first time in the country's history, creating an electoral crisis that led to numerous protests.
• 2021 – Death of Gustavo Noboa, lawyer, university professor and politician, President of the Republic of Ecuador from 22 January 2000 to 15 January 2003 (b. 1937).
• 2022 – Death of Chelique Sarabia, Venezuelan singer, musician, composer, poet, advertiser, television producer and political adviser (b. 1940).