Template:On this day - July 15

Isabella II of Spain

• 1570 – Off the coast of Tazacorte, on the Canary island of La Palma, the French Protestant privateer Jacques de Sores and his men murder 32 Portuguese and 8 Spanish Jesuit missionaries who were bound for Brazil.
• 1738 – The Royal Academy of Medicine is founded in Madrid (Spain).
• 1815 – Birth of Enrique Gil y Carrasco, Spanish Romantic writer (d. 1845).
• 1834 – Queen Isabella II of Spain officially ends by decree the existence of the Tribunal of the Holy Inquisition.
• 1835 – In the First Carlist War the Battle of Mendigorría takes place, with victory for the liberal side.
• 1898 – On the island of Cuba (in the course of the Spanish–American War) the city of Santiago capitulates.
• 1905 – Death of Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, President of the Council of Ministers of Spain during the reign of Alfonso XIII and minister in various governments formed during the reigns of Alfonso XII, María Cristina and Alfonso XIII (b. 1848).
• 1914 – In Panama the Canal Administration building is inaugurated.
• 1953 – In Argentina, Peronist groups set fire to the Casa del Pueblo (of the enlightened, anarchist labor movement), with the largest library on social subjects in South America.
• 1961 – In Managua (Nicaragua), poets of the "Betrayed Generation" group burn, on the shore of Lake Xolotlán, books by Nicaraguan poets they considered "bad"; they had meant to do it in the Plaza de la República, but opponents stopped them.
• 1971 – In Chile, President Salvador Allende promulgates the constitutional reform that allowed the nationalization of large-scale copper mining.
• 1979 – Death of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican president between 1964 and 1970 (b. 1911).
• 2013 – In Lima (Peru), a wave of protests begins against the corruption case known as "La Repartija".
• 2023 – Death of Francisco Ibáñez, Spanish cartoonist of the Bruguera School (b. 1936).