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Margaret of Parma

• 1028 – Death of Alfonso V, King of León, called the Noble or of the Good Fueros (b. 994).
• 1522 – Birth of Margaret of Parma, daughter of Charles I of Spain and half-sister of Philip II, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1586).
• 1522 – Death of Antonio de Nebrija, Spanish humanist (b. 1441).
• 1601 – The Siege of Ostend begins; it would end in 1604 with victory for the tercios of the Spanish Empire, though with great losses on both sides.
• 1795 – Death of Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish naturalist, soldier and writer (b. 1716).
• 1807 – In Buenos Aires, the militias repel the Second English Invasion of the city.
• 1811 – The Act of the Declaration of Independence of Venezuela is proclaimed with the participation of 42 deputies, among them Juan Germán Roscio and Francisco de Miranda.
• 1846 – Birth of Zoel García de Galdeano, Spanish mathematician (d. 1924).
• 1850 – Birth of Antonio Espina y Capó, Spanish physician (d. 1930).
• 1850 – Birth of Miguel Filomeno Martínez Pérez, Mexican engineer, educator and musician (d. 1919).
• 1885 – Birth of Blas Infante, Spanish politician and writer (d. 1936).
• 1941 – In the course of the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War, clashes begin in the border zone between the towns of Aguas Verdes and Huaquillas.
• 1962 – The Francisco de Paula Santander University is founded in Cúcuta (Colombia).
• 1965 – The radio station La Voz de los Libertadores 1030 AM is inaugurated in Bogotá (Colombia).
• 1968 – At Pedrosa de la Vega (Spain), Javier Cortes Álvarez de Miranda discovers the Roman Villa of La Olmeda, considered one of the most important archaeological sites of the Roman Hispanic world.
• 2011 – The Codex Calixtinus, an illuminated manuscript of the mid-12th century, is stolen in Santiago de Compostela (Spain).