Template:On this day - July 27

Enrique Granados

• 1276 – Death of James I, King of Aragon, Valencia and Majorca, and Count of Barcelona.
• 1309 – The King of Castile, Ferdinand IV, breaks the truce he had signed with the King of Granada, Muhammad III, and lays siege to Algeciras.
• 1513 – King Ferdinand appoints Pedro Arias Dávila administrator of the new Governorate of Castilla de Oro (present-day Panama).
• 1549 – Saint Francis Xavier reaches the coast of Japan.
• 1723 – In Segovia (Spain), the works on the Palace of La Granja are declared finished and blessed.
• 1806 – Birth of Francisco Méndez Álvaro, Spanish politician and physician (d. 1883).
• 1834 – Birth of Miguel Grau Seminario, admiral of the Peruvian Navy (d. 1879).
• 1867 – Birth of Enrique Granados, Spanish composer and pianist (d. 1916).
• 1909 – Spanish troops suffer a severe defeat during the Melilla War in the day known as the Disaster of the Barranco del Lobo.
• 1923 – The first issue of the Revista de Occidente appears in Madrid (Spain), founded and directed by José Ortega y Gasset until 1936.
• 1933 – The Government of the Second Spanish Republic recognizes the Soviet Union.
• 1936 – During the Civil War, the first squadron of the Aviazione Legionaria sent by Benito Mussolini in support of the rebels arrives in Spain.
• 1939 – The standing committee of the Cortes of the Spanish Republic decides to dissolve the Government in exile.
• 1987 – In the March Library of Palma de Mallorca a copy of the work Suma y narración de los incas (1551) by the chronicler from Valladolid Juan de Betanzos turns up.
• 1994 – Death of Rosa Chacel, Spanish writer of the Generation of '27 (b. 1898).
• 2002 – An expedition led by Jacek Palkiewicz claims to have discovered "El Dorado", the mythical Inca city of Paititi, in an area adjoining Manú National Park, between the Peruvian departments of Cuzco and Madre de Dios.
• 2004 – In San José (Costa Rica) a security guard takes over the Chilean embassy, shoots three Chilean officials dead and kills himself.
• 2004 – Spain and Morocco agree to send a joint force to Haiti to take part in the stabilization and reconstruction of the country.
• 2018 – Death of Enrique Verástegui, Peruvian poet, essayist, philosopher, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, watercolorist, physicist and mathematician (b. 1950).