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Alfonso de Cartagena

• 985 – In the County of Barcelona (present-day Spain), the chancellor of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Almanzor, enters the city of Barcelona after besieging it for 8 days.
• 1325 – Death of Ismail I, Sultan of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain) (b. 1279).
• 1339 – King Alfonso IV of Aragon grants the barony of Ayerbe to his wife Eleanor of Castile.
• 1384 – Birth of Alfonso de Cartagena, Castilian humanist, diplomat, historian and writer of the Pre-Renaissance (d. 1456).
• 1385 – Birth of Blanche I of Navarre, Queen consort and regent of Sicily, and Queen of Navarre (d. 1441).
• 1573 – In the present-day Province of Córdoba (Argentina), Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera founds the settlement of Córdoba.
• 1677 – By Royal Decree, Charles II of Spain reduces the size of the Councils to save time in the dispatch of business and money in salaries.
• 1710 – Birth of Jerónimo Grimaldi, Italian-Spanish politician and diplomat (d. 1789).
• 1713 – In Madrid (Spain) the first official working session of the Royal Spanish Academy is held in the very house of its founder, Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco.
• 1782 – In the Viceroyalty of New Granada, Antonio Caballero y Góngora is appointed Viceroy.
• 1812 – Death of Martín de Álzaga, Spanish merchant and politician (b. 1755).
• 1816 – Death of Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombian naturalist (b. 1771).
• 1818 – Birth of Miguel Joaquín Eleizegui Arteaga, the "Giant of Alzo", a Spaniard who gained renown by exhibiting himself on account of his great height (d. 1861).
• 1850 – Death of Francisco Cea Bermúdez, Spanish politician and diplomat (b. 1779).
• 1882 – Death of Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez, Costa Rican soldier and politician, President of Costa Rica between 1870 and 1876 (b. 1831).
• 1908 – Death of Felipe Calderón y Roca, Filipino lawyer, politician and intellectual (b. 1868).
• 1933 – The funeral of Hipólito Yrigoyen is held in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Some 200,000 people follow the funeral procession and more than half a million watch it, in one of the most crowded funerals in the history of Buenos Aires.
• 1943 – Death of Nazaria Ignacia, Spanish Catholic nun, founder of the Institute of the Missionary Crusaders of the Church (b. 1889).
• 1999 – Death of Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1901).
• 2006 – The Federal Electoral Institute proclaims that candidate Felipe Calderón Hinojosa won the majority of votes in the presidential election of July 2, 2006 in Mexico, with a margin of just over 240,000 votes over the candidate of the For the Good of All coalition.
• 2020 – In Tasajera (Colombia), a tanker truck explosion occurs, leaving 45 dead and 19 injured.