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Ambrosio Spínola

• 1163 – Death of Juan de Ortega, Patron of quantity surveyors in Spain (b. 1080).
• 1418 – Death of Catherine of Lancaster, Queen consort of Castile, mother of John II of Castile and grandmother of Isabella the Catholic (b. 1373).
• 1446 – Death of Martín de Vargas, Spanish Cistercian and theologian (b. c. 1380).
• 1484 – The town of Qasr Bunayra (present-day Casarabonela in Spain) falls to the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1565 – Birth of Francisco Ribalta, Spanish Baroque painter (d. 1628).
• 1625 – The city of Breda (Netherlands) surrenders to the Spanish troops of Ambrosio Spínola.
• 1765 – In the Captaincy General of Guatemala, the first settlement of the city of Chiquimula is destroyed by a violent hurricane and several tremors, known as the Holy Trinity earthquakes, which cause landslides and floods.
• 1774 – In Mexico City, Pedro Romero de Terreros founds the Nacional Monte de Piedad, under the name of «Sacro Real del Monte de Piedad de Ánimas», which provided a solution to many economic problems of the residents of New Spain.
• 1782 – In Madrid the Bank of San Carlos, the future Bank of Spain, is founded.
• 1882 – Death of Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin, Spanish military officer (b. 1814).
• 1884 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina) the Volunteer Fire Brigade of La Boca, the oldest in that country, is founded.
• 1899 – In Baler (Captaincy General of the Philippines) the «Last of the Philippines» capitulate, after 337 days besieged by Filipino troops.
• 1908 – In Madrid (Spain), the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío presents his credentials as ambassador of his country.
• 1984 – Death of Fernando Zóbel, Spanish painter (b. 1924).
• 1987 – Death of Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893).
• 2011 – Death of Vicente Ramos Pérez, Spanish philosopher, historian and politician (b. 1919).
• 2014 – The King of Spain Juan Carlos I announces his intention to abdicate in favor of his son Felipe VI of Spain.