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Leopoldo Lugones

• 853 – Fandila, presbyter from Acci of the Mozarabic Church, dies with his throat cut in Córdoba (present-day Spain) (b. 815).
• 964 – Commemoration of the Glosas Emilianenses in the Library of the Monastery of San Millán de Yuso, traditionally considered the first testimony of an archaic form of the Spanish language.
• 1348 – Death of Don Juan Manuel, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1282).
• 1486 – In present-day Colomera (Spain), Ferdinand the Catholic and his troops conquer Moclín.
• 1494 – Off the south coast of the island of Cuba, Christopher Columbus and his sailors reach the Isla de la Juventud.
• 1567 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, the Spanish explorer Martín Ruiz de Gamboa, in the name of governor Rodrigo de Quiroga, founds the village of Castro.
• 1562 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, at the foot of the Andes mountain range, the Spanish conquistador Juan Jufré y Montesa and his men found the village of San Juan (present-day Argentina).
• 1580 – In Bogotá (New Kingdom of Granada, present-day Colombia) the University of Santo Tomás is founded by papal bull, becoming the first in present-day Colombia.
• 1585 – Death of Juanelo Turriano (Giovanni Torriani), Italian mathematician and inventor settled in Toledo (b. 1501).
• 1622 – In New Spain, Mexico City is flooded.
• 1790 – Birth of José Antonio Páez, Venezuelan military officer, politician and president (d. 1873).
• 1798 – In California, the Franciscans found the Mission of San Luis Rey.
• 1810 – In Alcalá la Real (Spain), when the Corregidor refuses to hand over weapons to the Volunteer Musketeers to fight against the French, the townspeople storm his house and kill him along with an afrancesado priest he was sheltering.
• 1813 – Joseph Bonaparte flees Spain for good.
• 1813 – In Spain, the Anglo-Portuguese troops led by Wellington occupy the Castle of Burgos, destroyed after fierce resistance.
• 1820 – In Chile, the troops commanded by Thomas Alexander Cochrane arrive at Valparaíso on their return from their expedition to Peru.
• 1823 – In Peru, Spanish troops under the command of General Canterac come down from the highlands and occupy Lima.
• 1859 – In Mexico, president Benito Juárez confiscates and declares national property all the assets of the Catholic Church.
• 1874 – Birth of Leopoldo Lugones, Argentine writer, polymath, narrator, poet, journalist, historian, librarian, educator, teacher, philologist, theosophist and diplomat (d. 1938).
• 1901 – Death of Clarín (Leopoldo Alas), Spanish writer (b. 1852).
• 1917 – In Lima (Peru), John A. Mackay founds the Colegio San Andrés.
• 1920 – A bomb explodes in the theater of Havana during the performance of Aida, in which Enrico Caruso was singing as tenor.
• 1939 – 2,500 Spanish exiles arrive in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War.
• 1953 – In Colombia, General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla carries out a coup d'état against constitutional president Laureano Gómez.
• 1988 – Death of Juan Enrique Acuña, Argentine writer, puppeteer and cultural producer (b. 1915).
• 1994 – Signing of the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela (Group of Three).
• 2008 – In Zaragoza (Spain) Expo 2008 is inaugurated.
• 2017 – Death of Emma Maleras, dancer and choreographer of Spanish dance, especially known for her work as a concert performer and teacher of castanets (b. 1919).