Template:On this day - January 29

Adolfo Suárez

• 1712 – The Conference of the Peace of Utrecht begins, during which a set of treaties were signed between 1713 and 1715 in the cities of Utrecht and Rastatt by the opposing states in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1794 – On the Island of Santo Domingo, a Spanish fleet commanded by Admiral Gabriel de Aristizábal takes the stronghold of Fort-Dauphin from the French.
• 1824 – Tabasco is constituted as one of the first 14 states of Mexico.
• 1829 – Birth of Julián Quiroga, Mexican military officer and politician (d. 1877).
• 1848 – Chile adopts the decimal metric system.
• 1868 – Death of Pascual Pérez Rodríguez, Spanish writer and photographer (b. 1804).
• 1888 – A fire destroys the Teatro Variedades de Madrid, mecca of the Spanish zarzuela.
• 1892 – Death of Manuel García Barzanallana, Spanish politician (b. 1817).
• 1911 – General Severiano Talamante and his sons Arnulfo Talamante and Severiano M. Talamante are executed by firing squad in Sahuaripa, Mexico, on the orders of General Francisco Chiapa.
• 1919 – In Spain, the military pilots Sousa and Fanjul fly over Seville in their respective biplanes, managing to stay in the air for thirty minutes.
• 1938 – Death of Armando Palacio Valdés, Spanish writer and literary critic (b. 1853).
• 1942 – In the context of the Peruvian-Ecuadorian War, the Rio de Janeiro Protocol is signed, bringing the war to an end.
• 1951 – Death of Evaristo Valle, Spanish painter (b. 1873).
• 1963 – Death of Gabriel Maura Gamazo, Spanish politician and historian (b. 1879).
• 1981 – In Spain, Adolfo Suárez, Spanish politician and lawyer, President of the Government of Spain from 1976 to 1981, resigns.
• 1988 – Death of Luis Blanco-Soler, Spanish architect, one of the forerunners of Madrid rationalism (b. 1894).
• 2013 – Death of Myrtha Raia, Argentine pianist murdered after testifying against the civic-military dictatorship (b. 1928).