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• 1494 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and John II of Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the New World and Africa between Portugal and Spain.
• 1640 – In Barcelona (Spain) the Corpus of Blood takes place, an incident between a group of peasants and some soldiers of the tercios of the royal army, which set off a revolt and ended with the murder of numerous royal officials, among them the Count of Santa Coloma, Viceroy of Catalonia.
• 1671 – A fire in the Monastery of El Escorial destroys more than 5,000 codices of its Library.
• 1793 – Death of Damián de Castro, Spanish master silversmith and goldsmith (b. 1716).
• 1808 – In Spain, after the Battle of Alcolea, the French army defeats the Spanish forces and enters Córdoba, where for three days it carries out a bloody sack of the city.
• 1810 – In the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina), the first issue of the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is published, a newspaper founded to publicize the acts of government of the Primera Junta.
• 1812 – Birth of Antonio Bachiller y Morales, Cuban historian, teacher and bibliographer (d. 1889).
• 1833 – In Colombia, the village of Sabanalarga (Atlántico) is raised to the rank of Villa.
• 1835 – In Spain, José María Queipo de Llano is appointed President of the Council of Ministers.
• 1880 – During the Battle of Arica the armed forces of Chile begin the siege of the then Peruvian city of Arica.
• 1914 – The 40,000-ton American liner Alliance makes the first trial transit of the Panama Canal.
• 1915 – By legislative decree the name «República de El Salvador» is made official, replacing «República del Salvador».
• 1917 – In El Salvador, a high-intensity earthquake destroys most of the capital city, San Salvador.
• 1937 – Nearly 500 Spanish children fleeing the Civil War arrive at the Port of Veracruz in Mexico. They are known as the "Children of Morelia".
• 2009 – In Spain and other countries of the European Union elections to the European Parliament are held.
• 2011 – Death of Jorge Semprún, Spanish writer, intellectual, politician and screenwriter (b. 1923).
• 2015 – Death of Ildefonso Leal, Venezuelan historian, chronicler, researcher, writer and teacher (b. 1932).