Template:On this day - January 7

Pepe Botella

• 891 – Birth of Abd al-Rahman III, eighth and last independent emir (912–929) and first Umayyad caliph of the Emirate of Córdoba, who reigned for fifty years and founded the palatine city of Medina Azahara (d. 961).
• 1536 – Death of Catherine of Aragon, Aragonese aristocrat, Queen consort of England (b. 1485).
• 1720 – Birth of José Bernardo de Gálvez y Gallardo, Spanish military officer and politician (d. 1787).
• 1768 – Birth of Joseph I Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, known disparagingly in Spain as Pepe Botella, who was illegitimately proclaimed King of Spain as part of the political intrigues instigated by Napoleon to obtain the abdication of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1844).
• 1809 – Benito de San Juan, general of the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, is murdered in a mutiny of his own troops (b. 1727).
• 1878 – Death of Anselmo Suárez Romero, Cuban writer and novelist (b. 1818).
• 1899 – In Madrid, the first issue of the magazine La Vida Literaria appears, edited by Jacinto Benavente, with contributors such as Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Machado.
• 1907 – Birth of Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish musician, harp soloist and educator (d. 1993).
• 1908 – In Spain, the Fleet Act is enacted to provide the country with the new naval forces it lacked after the disasters suffered in the wars of Cuba and the Philippines at the end of the 19th century.
• 1922 – The first legionnaire of the Foreign Legion in the service of Spain dies, which inspired the legionnaire's hymn, with music by Juan Costa.
• 1948 – Death of María de Maeztu, Spanish educator and humanist (b. 1881).
• 1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
• 1965 – In Colombia, the pro-Castro guerrilla group ELN appears.
• 1966 – In Peru, the stone city of Gran Pajatén is discovered in the department of Amazonas.
• 1972 – In Ibiza (Spain), an Iberia LAE Caravelle 6-R crashes into Mount Sa Talaia in Sant Josep. All 104 people on board die.
• 1982 – In the city of Aachen, the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, receives the international Charlemagne Prize, the first awarded to a sovereign.
• 2018 – In Spain, thousands of people are trapped by snow for hours on the Northwest Highway (AP-6) between the towns of Guadarrama (Madrid) and Adanero (Ávila).