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Template:On this day - July 29
From Hispanopedia
- 1000 – Death of García Sánchez II, nicknamed the Tremulous, King of Pamplona (present-day Spain) (b. 964).
- 1184 – Death of Abu Yaqub Yusuf, caliph of the Almohad Empire between 1163 and 1184 (b. 1135).
- 1525 – In the Kingdom of Tierra Firme (present-day territory of Colombia), the Sevillian adelantado Rodrigo de Bastidas founds the settlement of Santa Marta.
- 1617 – The Treaty of Oñate is signed in secret, by which the Hispanic Monarchy obtains guarantees in the territories near the "Spanish Road", which ran from the Duchy of Milan, through the County of Burgundy, and finally to the Spanish Netherlands.
- 1773 – In the Captaincy General of Guatemala, the Santa Marta earthquakes destroy the viceregal city of Santiago de los Caballeros. Some 500 people die.
- 1804 – In Málaga (Spain) an epidemic of yellow fever begins, from which 11,464 people will die.
- 1837 – In Spain Juan Álvarez Mendizábal promulgates the law of confiscation of Church property.
- 1846 – In the course of the American intervention in Mexico, military forces of the United States occupy the city of San Diego (California).
- 1856 – In Asunción, the Republic of Paraguay and the Argentine Confederation (a federalist republic separated from the Unitarian State of Buenos Aires) sign a treaty of friendship and navigation.
- 1975 – The OAS repeals the blockade unilaterally imposed by the United States against the Republic of Cuba in 1964.
- 1983 – Death of Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director naturalized Mexican (b. 1900).
- 1986 – The presidents of Argentina and Brazil, Raúl Alfonsín and José Sarney, sign in Buenos Aires the economic agreements of mutual integration that will serve as the basis for the future creation of the Latin American common market Mercosur.
- 2002 – In Asunción (Paraguay), criminals dig an underground tunnel to the National Museum of Fine Arts and steal 5 paintings by European artists, valued at about one million US dollars.
- 2003 – Death of Carlos Lemos Simmonds, Colombian lawyer, politician, writer and journalist, who served as President of Colombia for 10 days, which earned him a generous lifetime pension (b. 1933).
- 2014 – Death of María Antonia Iglesias, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1945).
