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Template:On this day - January 21
From Hispanopedia
- 258 – In Roman Hispania, Fructuosus of Tarragona, Augurius of Tarragona and Eulogius of Tarragona are burned at the stake during the persecution decreed by the Roman Emperor Valerian.
- 1188 – Death of Ferdinand II, King of León (present-day Spain) from 1157 to 1188 (b. 1137).
- 1464 – Peter of Portugal, whom the Council of One Hundred had proclaimed king in place of John II of Aragon, arrives in Barcelona.
- 1522 – In the Kingdom of Tierra Firme (present-day Nicaragua), Captain Gil González Dávila and the pilot Andrés Niño make the first voyage along the coast of this country in search of a passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific.
- 1717 – Birth of Antonio Bucareli, Viceroy of New Spain (d. 1779).
- 1775 – Birth of Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García, Spanish composer (d. 1832).
- 1812 – The Cortes of Cádiz create the Council of State.
- 1877 – In the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the city of Carhué is founded.
- 1900 – At the Círculo Mercantil de Gijón, Leopoldo Alas Clarín gives a lecture entitled "Materialismo económico en España".
- 1905 – Venezuela breaks off diplomatic relations with the United States and with several European powers.
- 1917 – In Spain, the Minister of the Navy denies that the Spanish submarine Isaac Peral is in the waters of Denmark.
- 1922 – The Spanish Government begins to negotiate with Abd el-Krim the ransom of prisoners after the Disaster of Annual.
- 1930 – In Spain, the resignation of the Minister of Finance, José Calvo Sotelo, causes the crisis of the Spanish government of General Miguel Primo de Rivera.
- 1932 – In the Alto Llobregat (Spain), the anarchists organize a general strike.
- 1980 – In Spain, the Cervantes Prize is awarded ex aequo to the writers Jorge Luis Borges and Gerardo Diego.
- 1941 – Birth of Plácido Domingo, Spanish conductor and producer.
- 1998 – John Paul II begins his trip to Cuba, the first by a Pope to the island in the history of the Church.
- 2000 – The President of Ecuador, Jamil Mahuad, flees the presidential palace in Quito, cornered by the seizure of power led by a group of military officers and thousands of natives.
- 2022 – Death of Leonor Oyarzún, family counselor, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (b. 1919).
