Template:On this day - March 11

Juan Meléndez Valdés

• 1314 – Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake in Paris (France) (b. 1245).
• 1431 – Pedro García de Herrera, Marshal of the Kingdom of Castile, conquers the town of Jimena de la Frontera, until then under the rule of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain).
• 1526 – In a hall of the Royal Alcázar of Seville, King Charles I and Isabella of Portugal marry, in a ceremony officiated by Cardinal Salviati, legate of Pope Clement VII.
• 1641 – At the Peñón de Mbororé (present-day Argentina), the Guaraní Indians who lived in the Jesuit missions defeat the bandeirantes (Portuguese slavers after the separation of Portugal from Spain) at the Battle of Mbororé.
• 1754 – Birth of Juan Meléndez Valdés, Spanish poet, jurist and politician (d. 1817).
• 1857 – Death of Manuel José Quintana, Spanish poet of the Enlightenment in the transition to Spanish Romanticism (b. 1772).
• 1869 – Birth of Ángel Amor Ruibal, Spanish philosopher, linguist and theologian, forerunner of the philosophy known as Correlationism (d. 1930).
• 1942 – In the Philippines, during the Second World War, the U.S. troops abandon Corregidor.
• 1973 – In Argentina, after the ban on Peronism (in force for 18 years) is lifted, the Peronist physician Héctor Cámpora wins the March presidential elections.
• 1976 – In Salta (Argentina), eleven days before the coup d'état against the constitutional president Isabel Martínez de Perón, the ultraconservative terrorist paramilitary gang Triple A kidnaps, tortures and murders the physician Miguel Ragone, a former Peronist governor.
• 1990 – In Chile, Patricio Aylwin becomes the first president elected by universal suffrage since Salvador Allende took office in 1970, ending the civil-military regime in force since the 1973 coup and giving way to the transition to democracy.
• 1998 – In Santiago de Chile, the former dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as "senator for life" (thereby gaining immunity from being tried for his crimes), which provokes an escalation of violence in the country.
• 2004 – Terrorist attacks in Madrid: ten backpack bombs explode in passenger cars of the Cercanías commuter rail network, killing 192 people and injuring more than 1800.
• 2006 – In Chile, Michelle Bachelet takes office as president, becoming the first woman elected president in the country.
• 2020 – Death of Javier Hervada, Spanish legal philosopher, legal theorist and canonist (b. 1934).