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Template:On this day - June 22
From Hispanopedia
- 1372 – At the Battle of La Rochelle, the Castilian squadron of Bocanegra destroys the English squadron of Pembroke.
- 1484 – In the Granada plain (present-day Spain), the Christian army launches a new attack, felling trees and laying waste to considerable lands in Alhendín, Otura, and successively in Gójar, Dílar, La Zubia and Armilla.
- 1580 – Death of Hernando de Acuña, Spanish military officer and poet (b. 1520).
- 1563 – Death of Francisco de Villagra, companion of Pedro de Valdivia and former governor of Chile (b. 1511).
- 1777 – Birth of William Guillermo Brown, Irish sailor, first admiral of the Argentine naval forces (d. 1857).
- 1826 – In Central America the Congress of Panama opens its sessions.
- 1827 – The government of Chile dissolves Congress and consults the provinces on a new constitution, which will be promulgated in 1828.
- 1865 – Death of the Duke of Rivas, Spanish playwright, poet, historian, painter and statesman (b. 1791).
- 1872 – Death of Juana de Vega, Spanish liberal activist and writer, who was married to the guerrilla leader Francisco Espoz y Mina (b. 1807).
- 1890 – Death of Francisco Menéndez Valdivieso, politician and main reformer of Salvadoran education, President of El Salvador from 1885 to 1890 (b. 1830).
- 1911 – In Mexico, federal forces recover the city of Tijuana, taken by the filibusters.
- 1928 – In Chile the first international telephone line is inaugurated. It connected Santiago with Mendoza (Argentina), and therefore with Buenos Aires and Montevideo (Uruguay).
- 1918 – An unusual snowfall falls on the Pampas region of Argentina.
- 1966 – The Act of Iguazú is signed between Paraguay and Brazil.
- 2004 – In Peru, 700 students take over the National University of Trujillo, demanding the resignation of the rector and the vice-rectors over cases of corruption. The crisis will last 103 days.
- 2012 – In Paraguay, the Senate holds an impeachment trial of president Fernando Lugo, ending in his removal from office and his replacement by Federico Franco.
