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Charles of Ghent

• 1516 – In Flanders, against the will of the Council of Castile, and without his mother having been declared incapable of reigning, Prince Charles of Ghent has himself proclaimed King of Castile and Aragon "jointly with the Catholic Queen".
• 1519 – Hernán Cortés lands with seven hundred men on the coasts of the Gulf of New Spain to undertake the conquest of the territory.
• 1519 – The Spanish troops of Hernán Cortés defeat the Chontal Maya, led by Taabscoob, at the Battle of Centla.
• 1565 – Death of Vasco de Quiroga, lawyer, Oidor in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and first Bishop of Michoacán (b. 1480).
• 1647 – Death of Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (b. 1584).
• 1780 – During the American War of Independence, Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile (Alabama), the last frontier from which it was possible to threaten the Spanish colony of New Orleans.
• 1859 – Near La Serena (Chile), the Battle of Los Loros takes place, a military episode of the Revolution of 1859.
• 1903 – The United States Senate ratifies the Hay–Herrán Treaty, which grants the United States the right to build the Panama Canal.
• 1903 – In Mexico, the city of Mexicali (Baja California) is founded.
• 1915 – Off the Chilean coast, during the First World War, the British navy sinks the German warship SMS Dresden.
• 1926 – 3.8 km north-northwest of the center of the city of San José de Costa Rica, the Virilla tragedy occurs, the worst railway accident in that country's history, in which three carriages derail and fall into the canyon of the Virilla River, killing 248 pilgrims on their way to visit the Basilica of Los Ángeles.
• 1936 – During the Second Spanish Republic, the Falange Española is declared illegal and its leaders are arrested, among them José Antonio Primo de Rivera, charged with "breaking a government closure order" on the Falange premises.
• 1980 – Death of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and environmental popularizer (b. 1928).
• 1993 – Andorra approves by popular referendum its Constitution, which establishes democratic institutions.
• 1993 – In New York (United States), the UN denounces six military chiefs of El Salvador for the murder of Jesuits.
• 1995 – In Spain, the Statutes of Autonomy of the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla are approved.
• 2006 – Death of Alonso Zamora Vicente, Spanish philologist, dialectologist, lexicographer and writer (b. 1916).
• 2011 – Death of Félix Giménez Gómez (Félix de Guarania), Paraguayan poet and writer.