Template:On this day - February 26

Cardinal Cisneros

• 1498 – In Alcalá de Henares (Spain), Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros lays the foundation stone of the Complutense University (Complutensis Universitas).
• 1554 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, the Araucanian chief Lautaro faces the troops of Francisco de Villagra (lieutenant general of the Governorate since 1547) at the Battle of Marihueñu.
• 1526 – The Bishop of Zamora (Spain), Antonio de Acuña, attempts to escape from the Castle of Simancas, where he was held prisoner for his involvement in the Revolt of the Communities of Castile.
• 1561 – On the banks of the Sutó stream, in the hills of the Governorate of Chiquitos (present-day Bolivia), the Spanish conquistador Ñuflo de Chaves founds the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
• 1792 – Death of José Cadalso, Spanish military officer and writer (b. 1741).
• 1815 – Death of Agustín de Pedrayes, Spanish mathematician (b. 1744).
• 1901 – In Spain, the government of Marcelo Azcárraga resigns.
• 1904 – In Spain, the Congress of Deputies approves the bill on compulsory military service.
• 1909 – The Spanish Cortes approve a bill for the creation of a state-subsidized National Theater.
• 1932 – In Spain, the Divorce Law comes into force.
• 1976 – The last Spanish soldiers leave Western Sahara.
• 2002 – The Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español forks from the Spanish Wikipedia.
• 2004 – In Valladolid (Spain), an exhibition opens to commemorate the Fifth Centenary of the death of Isabella the Catholic.
• 2006 – In Caquetá (Colombia), the FARC attack a bus of civilians; nine passengers die.
• 2009 – The Chilean government approves, in principle, the rebuilding of Chaitén, a town devastated by a volcanic eruption, in the Los Lagos Region.
• 2010 – The Constitutional Court of Colombia declares unenforceable the re-election referendum law, which sought to enable the then president Álvaro Uribe Vélez to a possible third consecutive term.
• 2020 – Death of José Félix Patiño, Colombian physician and academic (b. 1927).