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Simón Bolívar

• 853 – Death of Benilde of Córdoba, an elderly widow who was beheaded and burned so that her remains could be scattered in the Guadalquivir River after confessing her Christian faith.
• 1300 – In Spain Diego López V de Haro founds the town of Bilbao.
• 1492 – In Spain, the Catholic Monarchs approve the purchase of the properties they had ceded to Boabdil and those he previously owned, for the sum of 80,000 ducats.
• 1502 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Island of Dominica during his fourth and last voyage to America.
• 1510 – In Monzón (Spain), the Casa de Contratación receives new Ordinances, thanks to which its initial prerogatives are extended.
• 1537 – Birth of Diego Durán, Spanish historian (d. 1588).
• 1754 – Birth of Juan José Delhuyar, Spanish chemist (d. 1796).
• 1808 – During the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, the first Siege of Zaragoza begins.
• 1813 – In the village of Trujillo, Venezuela, Simón Bolívar signs the Decree of War to the Death.
• 1813 – In Barinas, Venezuela, Antonio Nicolás Briceño, drafter of the Cartagena Agreement, which established a war of extermination against all persons born in the Peninsula and the Canary Islands, is executed by firing squad (b. 1782).
• 1867 – In Yucatán (Mexico), General Manuel Cepeda Peraza recovers for the Juarist republicans the city of Mérida, Yucatán, which had been occupied by the imperialists during the second French intervention in Mexico.
• 1875 – Birth of Juan Antonio Sánchez, Argentine pharmacist and chemist (d. 1953).
• 1901 – Death of José Luis Pellicer, Spanish draftsman and painter (b. 1842).
• 1918 – In the city of Córdoba (Argentina), the university reform movement begins.
• 1948 – In Colombia the department of Chocó is created, with its capital at Quibdó.
• 1948 – In the Philippines, in the province of Misamis Oriental, the municipality of El Salvador is created.
• 1949 – Death of Antonio Ballesteros Beretta, Spanish historian (b. 1880).
• 1977 – In Spain, after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, the first democratic elections take place.
• 1988 – Death of Guillermo Ganoza Vargas, Peruvian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist, creator and founder of the National Marinera Contest (b. 1923).
• 2014 – The sitting president and candidate Juan Manuel Santos defeats Óscar Iván Zuluaga in the run-off of the Colombian presidential election, in the context of the peace negotiations with the FARC.
• 2021 – Death of Gustavo Villapalos, Spanish historian, professor and politician (b. 1949).
• 2021 – Death of Mari Carmen Martínez-Villaseñor, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1943).