Template:On this day - January 30

Vicente Yáñez Pinzón

• 1500 – The Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to sight the Amazon River, on reaching its mouth.
• 1648 – The Peace of Münster is signed, by which the independence of the United Provinces was finally recognized by the Spanish Empire.
• 1766 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the Acho Bullring, the oldest in America, is inaugurated.
• 1806 – Death of Vicente Martín Soler, Spanish composer (b. 1754).
• 1841 – The city of Mayagüez in Puerto Rico is destroyed by a fire.
• 1846 – Birth of Ángela de la Cruz, Spanish nun, founder of the Sisters of the Cross, canonized by the Catholic Church (d. 1932).
• 1847 – The Californian town of Yerba Buena is renamed San Francisco.
• 1856 – Near Constitución (Chile), the steamer Cazador is wrecked. More than 400 people die, in what was the greatest naval tragedy ever to occur in Chile.
• 1899 – Birth of Manuel López-Quiroga, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1988).
• 1915 – David Galván Bermúdez, Mexican priest, is executed by firing squad (b. 1881).
• 1920 – El Tiempo is founded, now the newspaper with the largest circulation in Colombia.
• 1920 – In Spain, a fire destroys the Teatro Lírico, also known as the Gran Teatro de Madrid.
• 1937 – In the Spanish Civil War, the nun Carmen García Moyón, patron of the Amigonian lay people and cooperators, is burned alive (b. 1888).
• 1938 – The First National Government is formed in Burgos (Spain), in which Francisco Franco officially assumes both offices of Head of State and Head of Government.
• 1953 – Spain becomes a member of UNESCO.
• 1968 – Birth of Felipe VI, King of Spain.
• 1984 – Death of Alejandro Goicoechea, Spanish engineer and inventor (b. 1895).
• 1989 – Death of Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, Spanish politician (b. 1936), pretender to the throne of Spain and of France.
• 1991 – Death of José Ferrater Mora, Spanish philosopher, essayist, writer and filmmaker (b. 1912).
• 1993 – In Colombia, a terrorist bombing in downtown Bogotá, attributed to the Medellín Cartel, kills 25 people and wounds 70 others.
• 2013 – Death of Ferruccio Musitelli, Uruguayan photographer and filmmaker (b. 1927).
• 2015 – Death of Ricardo Bressani, Guatemalan biochemist and inventor (b. 1926).
• 2016 – Death of Francisco Flores, Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador from 1999 to 2004 (b. 1959).
• 2023 – Death of Alexis Ravelo, Spanish writer (b. 1971).