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Venustiano Carranza

• 1017 – Death of Sancho García, Count of Castile (b. 965/967?) (present-day Spain).
• 1146 – In the Taifa of Murcia (present-day Spain), the Battle of al-Ludjdj takes place, pitting the Kingdom of Castile against the Muslims at a village near Chinchilla de Montearagón and Albacete.
• 1323 – In Spain, the Hospital de la Herrada grants the village of Vega de Doña Olimpa its foral charter.
• 1505 – The Arte para ligeramente saber la lengua arábiga, an Arabic-Castilian dictionary by Pedro de Alcalá, is printed in Granada, Spain; it is the first printed book in the world with Arabic characters.
• 1556 – In Spain, King Charles I of Spain signs the Truce of Vaucelles with the French King Henry II.
• 1592 – In the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), Fusagasugá is founded (in the present-day department of Cundinamarca).
• 1597 – In Nagasaki (Japan), the government of Toyotomi Hideyoshi crucifies the 26 Martyrs of Japan, the first mass crucifixion in 15 centuries.
• 1597 – In New Spain (present-day state of Nuevo León in Mexico), the village of San Nicolás de los Garza is founded.
• 1810 – After seizing Jaén, Córdoba, Seville and Granada, the Napoleonic troops enter Málaga.
• 1815 – Founding by Royal Order of Ferdinand VII of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Extremadura in Badajoz.
• 1819 – The treaty between Chile and Argentina to cooperate in the independence of Peru is signed.
• 1852 – In Nicaragua, the Director of State, Fulgencio Vega, decrees the transfer of the government from the city of Granada to the city of Managua, raising the latter to the rank of capital of the nation.
• 1857 – In Mexico, the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States is promulgated.
• 1867 – Death of Serafín Estébanez Calderón, Spanish costumbrista writer, historian, Arabist, flamenco scholar and politician (b. 1799).
• 1876 – Captain General José Malcampo y Monge sails with the fleet from Manila (Philippines) to the island of Jolo, to put an end to the uprising and the center of piracy.
• 1877 – In Chile, the law enabling women to obtain university degrees is signed.
• 1912 – In Spain, the battleship España is launched, the first of the warships built after the destruction of the Spanish Navy in the wars of Cuba and the Philippines.
• 1915 – In Mexico, Pancho Villa assumes full military and civil powers.
• 1917 – President Venustiano Carranza and the Constituent Congress promulgate the Constitution of Mexico.
• 1964 – In Cuba, the government of Fidel Castro cuts off the drinking water supply to the American base at Guantánamo (Cuba), in retaliation for the seizure the day before of four Cuban fishing boats by the United States.
• 1985 – In the Province of Cádiz (Spain), the civil governor opens the gate of Gibraltar to the passage of people, vehicles and goods, in application of the agreement signed by Spain and the United Kingdom in November 1984.
• 1992 – Death of Nicomedes Santa Cruz, Peruvian décima poet, singer-songwriter, journalist and poet (b. 1925).
• 2003 – Death of Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes, Spanish philologist, dialectologist and Arabist (b. 1924).
• 2020 – Death of José Agustín de la Puente Candamo, Peruvian historian, university professor, genealogist and lawyer (b. 1922).
• 2022 – Death of Fernando Marías Amondo, Spanish writer, screenwriter and editor (b. 1958).