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Template:On this day - January 24
From Hispanopedia
- 1256 – Birth of Guzmán el Bueno (Alonso Pérez de Guzmán), Leonese military officer and nobleman, founder of the House of Medina Sidonia (d. 1309).
- 1521 – In the Tuamotu archipelago, Ferdinand Magellan discovers San Pablo Island.
- 1527 – In the present-day Province of Santa Fe (Argentina), the Spanish conquistador Sebastian Cabot encounters the Mocoretá people, whom he will make known in his Mapamundi of 1544.
- 1597 – In the Spanish Netherlands, the Battle of Turnhout takes place during the Eighty Years' War.
- 1643 – Philip IV banishes his favorite, the Count-Duke of Olivares, ill and broken by the resounding failure of his policy.
- 1729 – Death of the Marquis of Mirabal (Luis de Mirabal y Espínola), Spanish politician (b. 1657).
- 1806 – In Madrid, Leandro Fernández de Moratín premieres his play El sí de las niñas.
- 1814 – In San Salvador (Captaincy General of Guatemala), a second uprising takes place seeking autonomy from Spanish rule.
- 1848 – In Caracas, Venezuela, the attack on Congress takes place, resulting in the deaths of several conservative members of parliament.
- 1853 – Birth of Tirso Rodrigáñez y Sagasta, Spanish lawyer, journalist and politician (d. 1935).
- 1856 – After 12 years of fighting, the War of Independence of the Dominican Republic ends with the defeat of the Haitian army at the Battle of Sabana Larga.
- 1939 – Death of Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (b. 1880).
- 1939 – In the city of Chillán (Chile), an earthquake causes more than 30 000 deaths.
- 1959 – Mexico breaks off diplomatic relations with Guatemala.
- 1972 – In a jungle on the island of Guam, the Japanese sergeant Shōichi Yokoi is discovered, having been in hiding since 1945 unaware of the end of the Second World War.
- 1976 – After the death of Franco, Spain and the United States sign a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation.
- 1977 – On Atocha Street (in Madrid), during the democratic transition, a far-right group murders five labor lawyers of CCOO.
- 1992 – Bolivia obtains from Peru access to the Pacific Ocean through the port of Ilo, with a free zone and a highway.
- 2011 – Death of Jaime Salinas Bonmatí, Spanish writer and editor (b. 1925).
- 2014 – Death of Rafael Pineda Ponce, teacher, politician and President of the National Congress of Honduras (b. 1930).
