Template:On this day - February 22

Amerigo Vespucci.

• 970 – Death of García Sánchez I, King of Nájera and Navarre from 923 to 970 (b. 919).
• 1512 – Death of Amerigo Vespucci, Florentine merchant, explorer and cosmographer, naturalized Castilian (b. 1454).
• 1523 – Death of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, eldest son of Cardinal Mendoza (b. 1466).
• 1530 – In Rome, Pope Clement VII crowns Charles I of Spain as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1746 – In the province of Sonora-Sinaloa (present-day Mexico), Apache warriors sack the Hacienda de Tehuachi, belonging to Governor Agustín de Vildósola.
• 1813 – The Spanish Cortes abolish the Tribunal of the Holy Office in the American viceroyalties.
• 1819 – The Adams–Onís Treaty is signed, by which Spain sells Florida to the United States for 5 million dollars.
• 1845 – Death of Enrique Gil y Carrasco, Spanish Romantic writer (b. 1815).
• 1854 – In Texcoco, State of Mexico, the National School of Agriculture, now known as the Chapingo Autonomous University, is founded.
• 1847 – During the First United States intervention in Mexico, the Battle of Buena Vista is fought.
• 1904 – On the Antarctic continent, Argentina establishes the Orcadas Base, the first permanent base on the continent.
• 1904 – The United Kingdom sells Argentina a weather station in the South Orkney Islands, 1502 km southeast of the Argentine city of Ushuaia.
• 1913 – In Mexico, President Francisco I. Madero and Vice President José María Pino Suárez are murdered.
• 1914 – Birth of María Ugarte, Spanish journalist, writer, teacher, historian and palaeographer, exiled in the Dominican Republic (d. 2011).
• 1928 – At the Teatro Victoria in Barcelona (Spain), the film Don Quijote de la Mancha, directed by Lau Lauritzen, premieres.
• 1938 – Germany and Italy accept the British proposal for the withdrawal of volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
• 1938 – During the Spanish Civil War, forces of the rebel faction under the command of Juan Yagüe and José Enrique Varela take the city of Teruel after two days of fighting, and take 14,500 republicans prisoner.
• 1942 – During the Second World War, American troops withdraw from the Philippines.
• 1971 – In Montevideo (Uruguay), the consul general of Brazil is released after 205 days of kidnapping by members of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros.
• 1974 – In Ecuador, the television channel Teleamazonas is founded, the first in that country to broadcast in color.
• 1986 – In the Philippines, the People Power Revolution begins, which will overthrow the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
• 1995 – In Spain, the Senate approves the Statutes of Autonomy of Ceuta and Melilla, completing the Spanish map of autonomies.
• 2012 – Death of Luis Moreno Mansilla, Spanish architect known for developing an architecture based on community activation (b. 1959).
• 2014 – Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as "El Chapo" Guzmán, is captured by members of the Mexican Navy in Sinaloa.
• 2018 – Death of Forges, well-known Spanish graphic humorist (b. 1942).