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Hadrian

• 68 – The Legio VII Gemina settles in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, in what is today the city of León.
• 138 – Death of Hadrian, the second of the emperors born in the province of Baetica, and the third of the "five good emperors" (b. 76).
• 901 – During the Day of Zamora (in present-day Spain), the army of the Umayyad leader Ahmad ibn al-Qitt scatters, abandoning its leader. The Christians decide to attack, defeating the Berber troops.
• 1099 – Death (possible date) of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid Campeador), Castilian military leader (b. c. 1048).
• 1488 – In Spain, the Marquis of Cádiz secures the surrender of Vera (Almería) to the Christians without resistance.
• 1515 – Birth of Francisco de Toledo, Spanish aristocrat and soldier, Viceroy of Peru (d. 1582).
• 1555 – On the island of Cuba, the French Protestant pirate Jacques de Sores assaults the town of Havana. For a month he will loot and burn every house and kill all their occupants.
• 1561 – Birth of John Baptist of the Conception, religious, mystic and reformer of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity (d. 1613).
• 1594 – Gonzalo de Tapia, founder of the first permanent Jesuit mission in New Spain, is murdered (b. 1561).
• 1810 – During the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, French troops burn the town of Almazán, in reprisal for the stubborn resistance put up within its walls by 1,600 men (commanded by the Spanish guerrilla leader Jerónimo Merino).
• 1821 – The United States takes possession of Florida, purchased from Spain through the Adams–Onís Treaty.
• 1834 – Birth of José María Sbarbi y Osuna, Spanish cleric, philologist and musicologist (d. 1910).
• 1877 – In Puerto Rico, the Villa de Mayagüez formally receives the status of city from the Spanish Crown.
• 1882 – In the course of the War of the Pacific, Chilean and Peruvian forces fight the Battle of Concepción.
• 1883 – At the end of the War of the Pacific the Battle of Huamachuco is fought.
• 1887 – In Paraguay the Democratic Center is founded, today called the Authentic Radical Liberal Party.
• 1913 – Birth of Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet, playwright and novelist (d. 1985).
• 1945 – In Paraguay the Itapúa Department is created.
• 1962 – In Spain the ninth Government of Spain during the Franco dictatorship is formed, with the entry of technocrat ministers of Opus Dei, who will begin an economic policy leading to the implementation of the Development Plan.
• 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
• 1992 – In Miami, the Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug trafficking.
• 2019 – In Puebla (Mexico), after 81 years of the vehicle's history, the company Volkswagen manufactures the last Volkswagen Beetle in the world.
• 2019 – Death of Armando Ramírez, Mexican writer, journalist and chronicler (b. 1952).