Template:On this day - January 26

José Quer

• 1085 – In the Taifa of Zaragoza (in present-day Spain), Al-Musta'in marries the daughter of Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Aziz, King of the Taifa of Valencia, in a ceremony attended by the taifa kings of al-Andalus and El Cid Campeador.
• 1500 – The Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reaches the coast of present-day Brazil, where the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho now stands.
• 1576 – Death of Juan Ortiz de Zárate, Spanish military officer and conquistador (b. 1515).
• 1641 – In Barcelona, the French army allied with Catalan militias defeats the Spanish army at the Battle of Montjuïc. Catalonia temporarily becomes a subject of the French king.
• 1695 – Birth of José Quer, Spanish physician, surgeon and botanist (d. 1764).
• 1720 – The King of Spain, Philip V, accepts the terms agreed by the Quadruple Alliance of 1718.
• 1796 – Birth of Policarpa Salavarrieta, spy and figure of the independence of Colombia during the period known as the Patria Boba (d. 1817).
• 1811 – In Mexico, Colonel Juan Bautista Carrasco proclaims independence in Monterrey, in support of the movement started by the Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo.
• 1838 – In Spain, the Carlists, led by Ramón Cabrera, occupy the stronghold of Morella after a siege of several months.
• 1898 – The American battleship Maine enters Havana; its sinking, attributed to the Spaniards, served as a pretext for the United States to declare war on Spain.
• 1939 – Death of Jaime Mendoza Gonzáles, Bolivian physician, poet, philanthropist, writer and geographer (b. 1874).
• 1939 – In Spain, the rebel troops, supported by Italian troops, take the city of Barcelona, during the Spanish Civil War.
• 1945 – In Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón (Secretary of Labor and Social Security, and later President of the Republic) decrees compulsory paid vacations for all Argentine workers.
• 1979 – The cities of Oviedo (Spain) and Valparaíso (Chile) are twinned.
• 1979 – In Spain, the Government authorizes ten foreign banks to open branches in Madrid.
• 1987 – In Spain, King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía lay the foundation stone of the Universal Exposition of Seville of 1992, on the grounds of the Isla de la Cartuja.
• 2010 – In Santo Domingo, the National Assembly proclaims the new constitution of the Dominican Republic.
• 2021 – Death of Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Colombian lawyer, writer and politician (b. 1951).