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Blas de Lezo

• 1399 – Death of John of Gaunt, claimant to the Crown of Castile (b. 1340).
• 1522 – The city of Toledo (Spain) surrenders to the troops of Charles I during the War of the Communities.
• 1536 – In present-day Argentina, on the banks of the Río de la Plata, Pedro de Mendoza founds the village of Nuestra Señora del Buen Ayre, the first settlement on the present-day site of Buenos Aires.
• 1689 – Birth of Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral, one of the finest strategists in the history of the Spanish Navy (d. 1741).
• 1783 – Great Britain recognizes the independence of the United States.
• 1802 – Death of Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, Spanish politician, economist and historian (b. 1723).
• 1807 – In Montevideo (Uruguay), one of the English Invasions begins.
• 1813 – In the village of San Lorenzo (Argentina), the Battle of San Lorenzo takes place, pitting the Mounted Grenadiers under the command of José de San Martín against a Spanish expedition commanded by Juan Antonio Zabala.
• 1820 – In Chile, the British officer Thomas Cochrane seizes the city of Valdivia, ending one of the important Spanish bastions on the Pacific coast.
• 1843 – In Argentina, the Buenos Aires governor Juan Manuel de Rosas organizes the siege of Montevideo (Uruguay).
• 1875 – During the Third Carlist War, the Surprise of Lácar takes place, an event in which King Alfonso XII was nearly captured by the Carlist troops.
• 1876 – The Machaín–Irigoyen Treaty is signed between Paraguay and Argentina, by which the latter keeps the Misiones Province and the strip between the Bermejo and Pilcomayo rivers.
• 1932 – Five consecutive earthquakes destroy a considerable part of Santiago de Cuba.
• 1933 – The Civil War in Nicaragua ends with a peace treaty signed by Augusto César Sandino, chief of the revolutionary forces, and President Juan Bautista Sacasa.
• 1944 – In Spain, during the Second World War, Francisco Franco reaffirms the "strict neutrality" of Spain.
• 1945 – During the Second World War, American troops enter Manila.
• 1984 – In Caracas (Venezuela), six democratic Hispanic American countries and Spain sign the Declaration of Caracas, which describes democracy as the best political system for Hispanic America.
• 2006 – Following a complaint by the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), Frikipedia is temporarily taken off the web.
• 2019 – Presidential elections are held in El Salvador, won by Nayib Bukele, which means the end of the two-party system that ARENA and the FMLN had maintained for 30 years in the Central American country.