Template:On this day - February 6

Emilio Aguinaldo

• 1482 – In Seville (Spain), the first auto-da-fé of the Spanish Inquisition takes place.
• 1860 – In northern Morocco, issue number one of that country's first newspaper, El Eco de Tetuán, edited by the Spaniard Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, appears.
• 1873 – Bolivia and Peru sign a secret treaty of military alliance, pointed to by Chilean historians as one of the causes of the War of the Pacific.
• 1887 – In Costa Rica, the Liceo de Costa Rica is created by decree during the presidency of Bernardo Soto Alfaro, on the initiative of Mauro Fernández Acuña.
• 1895 – Birth of María Teresa Vera, Cuban singer, composer and guitarist (d. 1965).
• 1899 – Death of Ramón Verea, Spanish journalist, engineer, writer and inventor (b. 1833).
• 1915 – The ship Alfonso XIII of the Trasatlántica company, carrying a large cargo of Cuban coffee, sinks in a surada (southerly gale) off the port of Santander.
• 1922 – In Spain, from this day punctual attendance is required of civil servants in all ministries.
• 1926 – In Spain, King Alfonso XIII signs the decree establishing the National Book Festival.
• 1929 – Death of María Cristina of Habsburg-Lorraine, Spanish queen consort and regent (b. 1858).
• 1937 – In Spain, during the Civil War, the Battle of Jarama begins, in which the republicans face the rebels of General Francisco Franco.
• 1939 – The main Spanish republican leaders, among them Manuel Azaña and Juan Negrín, take refuge in France.
• 1942 – The steamer Apolo, loaded with wheat from Argentina to relieve the postwar hunger, arrives in Barcelona (Spain).
• 1947 – Captain Federico Guesalaga Toro inaugurates the Captain Arturo Prat Naval Base, as part of the First Chilean Antarctic Expedition.
• 1964 – Death of Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, who headed the first government of the Republic of the Philippines (b. 1869).
• 1973 – In Argentina, the dictator Alejandro Agustín Lanusse prevents the democratic former president Juan Domingo Perón from returning to the country.
• 1988 – Argentina and Brazil invite Uruguay to join the future Argentine-Brazilian common market.
• 2000 – In Mexico, the Federal Preventive Police storms the facilities of the University City of UNAM, to end a strike begun by the General Strike Council on 20 April 1999, and arrests just over 700 university students.
• 2012 – Death of Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist (b. 1923).
• 2024 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean politician, business engineer and businessman, President of Chile in 2010–2014 and 2018–2022, dies in a helicopter crash (b. 1949).