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Charles I of Spain and V of Germany

• 1221 – In Seville, capital of Almohad al-Andalus (present-day Spain), the governor Abu El-Ola hands the Torre del Oro over to the city upon the completion of its construction.
• 1500 – Birth of Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Spain as Charles I, and Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V.
• 1503 – On the coast of Veraguas (present-day Panama), Christopher Columbus founds Santa María de Belén, the first Spanish settlement on the American mainland.
• 1524 – Pope Clement VII grants the inquisitorial tribunals of the Kingdom of Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia jurisdiction to try those accused of sodomy, whether or not it involves heresy.
• 1525 – At the Battle of Pavia, the imperial troops of Charles I defeat the French troops of Francis I, bringing the Four Years' War to an end.
• 1545 – Birth of John of Austria, admiral, general, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands and Councillor of State during the reign of his (paternal) half-brother, the Spanish King Philip II (d. 1578).
• 1647 – By the Quillén River, in the present-day Cautín Province (Chile), Spanish colonizers meet with Mapuche natives at the second Parliament of Quilín.
• 1808 – Joseph Bonaparte institutes the Order of the Two Sicilies.
• 1837 – Birth of Rosalía de Castro, Spanish poet and novelist who wrote in both the Galician and the Castilian languages (d. 1885).
• 1874 – Death of Anselmo Clavé, Spanish poet, politician, composer and music director (b. 1824).
• 1881 – In Chile, Fort Recabarren is founded to continue the occupation of the Araucanía. This fort will in time become the present-day city of Temuco.
• 1981 – The film Deprisa, deprisa by the Spanish film director Carlos Saura wins the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
• 1908 – The bishop of Barcelona (Spain) publishes a pastoral letter against the city council's plan to create "bisexual and neutral" (that is, coeducational and non-religious) schools.
• 1909 – At the Teatro Pérez Galdós in Las Palmas, the drama La esfinge, Miguel de Unamuno's first dramatic production, premieres.
• 1917 – The British intelligence service intercepts a telegram from Arthur Zimmermann, German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, asking Mexico to go to war against the United States.
• 1925 – In Granada (Spain), the tramway from Granada to Sierra Nevada (with 14 tunnels and 21 bridges along its 20 km route) is inaugurated, linking many towns of the province.
• 1926 – A regular passenger air service is established between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.
• 1946 – In Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón is elected president. Eva Perón thus becomes first lady.
• 1958 – In the jungle of the Sierra Maestra (the easternmost province of Cuba), Radio Rebelde, the broadcaster of the guerrillas led by Fidel Castro, begins transmitting.
• 1976 – In Madrid (Spain), the World Tourism Organization sets up its headquarters.
• 1981 – In Madrid (Spain), Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, after holding the Spanish Government and deputies hostage for almost 20 hours, surrenders to the government forces. General Jaime Milans del Bosch and other participants in the failed coup d'état are also arrested.
• 1989 – In Spain, the Council of Ministers approves the full incorporation of women into all arms, corps and ranks of the Armed Forces, although without the obligation to do military service.
• 2000 – A group of Spanish researchers from the CSIC and the UNED succeed in making paraplegic rats walk again.
• 2005 – In São Paulo (Brazil), the Prince and Princess of Asturias inaugurate the largest center of the Instituto Cervantes in Ibero-America.