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Julián Sánchez

• 1252 – In Seville (present-day Spain) Alfonso X the Wise is proclaimed King of Castile and León.
• 1533 – In the Governorate of Cartagena (present-day Colombia) the city of Cartagena de Indias is founded.
• 1535 – In the course of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars, the Spanish army led by Charles I defeats the Ottoman forces during the Tunis campaign.
• 1572 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru the city of Huancayo is founded.
• 1649 – In Northern Samar (Philippines), Agustín Sumuroy attempts to start a revolt against the Spanish colonial government, but ends up captured and beheaded by his own countrymen.
• 1774 – Birth of Julián Sánchez, Spanish guerrilla fighter and military officer, a prominent figure against the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain.
• 1778 – In Spain, a group of people from Málaga, most of them from Alhaurín de la Torre, set sail on the brigantine San José bound for New Orleans, where they founded the town of New Iberia.
• 1783 – By order of the Viceroy of the Río de la Plata Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo, the town of San José de Mayo (today capital of the Uruguayan department of San José) is founded.
• 1816 – The Congress of Paraguay names José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia «perpetual dictator».
• 1851 – Birth of Isaac Peral, Spanish scientist, sailor and military officer, ship-of-the-line lieutenant of the Royal Navy and inventor of the first electrically powered torpedo submarine.
• 1855 – The American adventurer William Walker invades Nicaragua and introduces slavery.
• 1890 – Death of Aureliano Maestre de San Juan, Spanish scientist, histologist, physician, anatomist and academic (b. 1828).
• 1898 – In Cuba, the United States fleet begins the blockade of Santiago.
• 1900 – In Santiago de Chile the newspaper El Mercurio is launched.
• 1942 – In Mexico the National Navy Day is instituted to honor the crews of the Mexican tankers Potrero del Llano and Faja de Oro, sunk by German submarines on 13 and 20 May of that same year.
• 1984 – In El Salvador, the politician José Napoleón Duarte takes office as president.
• 1991 – In Argentina the province of Tierra del Fuego (formerly a territory) is created.
• 2008 – In Medellín (Colombia) the 38th Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly begins.
• 2019 – In El Salvador, the politician and businessman Nayib Bukele takes office as president.