Template:On this day - January 14

Juan Bravo Murillo

• 1514 – In Spain, Ferdinand the Catholic, regent of the Kingdom, issues a Royal Decree authorizing marriage between Spaniards and natives.
• 1526 – The Treaty of Madrid is signed between Francis I of France and Charles I of Spain, after the Battle of Pavia.
• 1724 – In Spain, Philip V abdicates in favor of his son Louis I, whom he will succeed again only 229 days later, upon his death from smallpox.
• 1739 – Spain and England sign the Convention of El Pardo, which lays down the bases of trade in the American colonies.
• 1807 – In Argentina, English troops from the ship Diadem, anchored off Montevideo, demand from Viceroy Rafael de Sobremonte the surrender of Buenos Aires (second English invasion of the Río de la Plata), after which they will be repelled.
• 1809 – England and Spain sign an alliance to fight together against Napoleon Bonaparte, whose armies had treacherously invaded Spain.
• 1851 – In Spain, Juan Bravo Murillo is entrusted by Queen Isabella II with forming a new government.
• 1858 – In Spain, Francisco Javier Istúriz Montero is appointed President of the Government.
• 1866 – In Peru, the government issues a declaration of war against Spain.
• 1875 – In Spain, Alfonso XII arrives in Madrid to take the throne.
• 1901 – Death of Víctor Balaguer, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1824).
• 1933 – In Brazil, the Colombian troops who would face the Peruvian forces that had seized the Colombian city of Leticia arrive in Manaus, on the Amazon.
• 1935 – The first issue of the daily Ya appears in Madrid (Spain).
• 1937 – During the Spanish Civil War, the offensive of the rebel troops against Málaga begins.
• 1992 – The New York Act II, a peace treaty between the FMLN and the government of El Salvador, is agreed.
• 1997 – José María Gil-Robles is elected President of the European Parliament.
• 2003 – The new facilities of the Madrid Center for Astrobiology (CAB), the only NASA associate operating outside the USA, are inaugurated in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid).
• 2013 – A migration reform comes into force in Cuba, ending decades of travel restrictions.