Template:On this day - July 14

Compay Segundo

• 1717 – Birth of Ventura Rodríguez, Spanish architect (d. 1785).
• 1733 – Birth of Joaquín Fernando Garay, Spanish biologist, famous for introducing the large-scale cultivation of the potato in northern Spain (d. 1810).
• 1769 – The expedition commanded by Gaspar de Portolà sets up base on Monterey Bay (in present-day California, USA).
• 1771 – In Monterey County (in present-day California, USA), the Franciscan friars Junípero Serra and Buenaventura Sitjar found the Mission San Antonio de Padua.
• 1610 – Death of Francisco Solano, Spanish Franciscan priest and saint, called "the wonder-worker of the New World".
• 1803 – Death of Esteban Salas, Spanish-Cuban composer, author of sacred classical music.
• 1816 – Death of Francisco de Miranda, who fought in the Hispanic American wars of independence, in the French Revolution and in the American Revolutionary War (b. 1750).
• 1824 – Death of Agustín de Betancourt, Spanish civil and military engineer, architect, essayist, and forerunner of radio, telegraphy and thermodynamics (b. 1758).
• 1902 – At Machu Picchu (Peru), the Cusco landowner Agustín Lizárraga writes on a wall "A. Lizárraga, 14 de julio de 1902", which proves that the American Hiram Bingham did not discover the citadel in 1911, since it had in fact been discovered centuries earlier by Spanish explorers and missionaries.
• 1906 – In the Philippines, after the American invasion, President Macario Sakay and his soldiers surrender, accepting an amnesty promised by the American governor. It turned out to be a deception and they were later hanged.
• 1925 – Birth of María Asunción Català Poch, Spanish teacher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 2009).
• 1954 – Death of Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, director, screenwriter and film producer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1922 (b. 1866).
• 1970 – In Managua (Nicaragua), President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Foreign Minister Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez and the United States ambassador Turner B. Shelton sign the abrogation of the Bryan–Chamorro Treaty, concluded in 1914.
• 1979 – In the United States, the Secretary of State issues the Cyrus Vance Note to force the resignation of the President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle, who was facing the Sandinista popular insurrection.
• 1999 – In London, an agreement is signed between Argentina and the United Kingdom allowing Argentine citizens access to the Malvinas Islands.
• 2003 – Death of Compay Segundo, Cuban composer, singer and guitarist (b. 1907).
• 2011 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner opens the mega-exhibition Tecnópolis of science, technology, industry and art, the largest in Latin America.
• 2022 – Death of Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Peruvian soldier, President of Peru between 1975 and 1980 (b. 1936).