Template:On this day - July 28

Ibn Arabi.

• 1165 – Birth of Ibn Arabi, Andalusi Sufi mystic, philosopher, poet, traveler and Muslim scholar (d. 1240).
• 1369 – The Siege of Algeciras takes place, after which the Nasrid Sultan Muhammad V recovered the city of Al-Yazirat Al-Hadra (Algeciras), which had been in Castilian hands for 25 years.
• 1527 – Death of Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish adelantado, explorer and conquistador, founder of the city of Santa Marta (in present-day Colombia) (b. 1475).
• 1571 – In the Philippines, Spanish settlers found La Laguna Encomienda.
• 1590 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the governor of Santa Cruz, Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, appoints Gonzalo Solíz de Holguín as his lieutenant general and chief justice of the governorate; he took part in the move of San Lorenzo de la Barranca to Cotoca in 1591, and later to the Punta de San Bartolomé (present-day Santa Cruz) in 1595.
• 1631 – Death of Guillén de Castro, playwright of the Spanish Golden Age (b. 1569).
• 1821 – The American pro-independence army led by Nicolás Arriola enters the western Amazon to begin the campaign against the Commandancy General of Maynas within the process of the Independence of Peru.
• 1844 – Death of Joseph Bonaparte, nicknamed the Intruder King for his forced appointment to the Spanish throne promoted by his brother Napoleon I (b. 1768).
• 1865 – Arrival of the first Welsh settlers on the coast of Puerto Madryn (Chubut Province), marking the formal beginning of the Welsh settlement in Argentina.
• 1954 – Birth of Hugo Chávez, soldier, politician and president of Venezuela (d. 2013).
• 1957 – In Mexico, an earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale (intensity IX) with its epicenter near Acapulco causes great damage in Mexico City (among other things, the fall of the Angel of Independence).
• 1985 – In Lima (Peru), Alan García Pérez takes office as president for the first time.
• 1990 – In Lima (Peru), Alberto Fujimori takes office as president for the first time.
• 1993 – Andorra is admitted to the United Nations.
• 2000 – In Lima (Peru), Alberto Fujimori takes office as president for the third time despite a revolt in the capital, called the March of the Four Suyos, which caused great destruction, six dead and hundreds injured.
• 2006 – In Lima (Peru), Alan García Pérez takes office as president for the second time.