Template:On this day - July 11

Luis de Góngora.

• 1561 – Birth of Luis de Góngora y Argote, poet and playwright of the Spanish Golden Age, the foremost exponent of the literary movement known as culteranismo (d. 1627).
• 1768 – Death of José Nebra, Spanish composer of the Baroque period (b. 1702).
• 1777 – Birth of Juan Gualberto González Bravo, Spanish musician, writer and politician (d. 1857).
• 1792 – On the island of Cuba the settlement of Manzanillo is founded.
• 1802 – In Madrid (Spain), the Teatro Español catches fire.
• 1819 – In the Viceroyalty of New Granada (present-day Colombia), the Battle of Gámeza takes place, the start of the secessionist campaign led by Simón Bolívar.
• 1893 – In Nicaragua the liberal revolution breaks out. José Santos Zelaya becomes president of the country.
• 1889 – The city of Tijuana is founded in Mexico.
• 1921 – On the island of Tierra del Fuego (at the southern tip of Argentine Patagonia) the town of Río Grande is founded.
• 1954 – In Paraguay, after the coup d'état of 1954 led by Alfredo Stroessner, general elections are held and won by Stroessner himself with 100% of the vote, thus inaugurating 35 years of dictatorship.
• 1971 – In Chile, the National Congress approves the constitutional reform sent by Salvador Allende, which allowed the nationalization of large-scale copper mining.
• 2000 – Death of Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913).
• 2002 – The Perejil Island incident (Spain) occurs, in which a group of Moroccan gendarmes invades Spanish territory, an event that markedly worsened relations between the two countries.
• 2007 – Death of Alfonso López Michelsen, lawyer, politician, professor, diplomat and President of Colombia (b. 1913).
• 2015 – In Mexico, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as "El Chapo" Guzmán, escapes from the Altiplano prison.