Template:On this day - March 28

Saint Teresa of Jesus

• 1172 – Death of Ibn Mardanish, "the Wolf King", Andalusi leader and soldier who, after the end of Almoravid rule, proclaimed himself independent Emir of Mursiyya and Balansiyya, thus controlling all of Sharq al-Andalus (b. 1124).
• 1480 – In Castile and Aragon, a pragmatic of the Catholic Monarchs authorizes peasants to move freely with all their goods.
• 1515 – Birth of Teresa of Jesus, Spanish mystic and writer, foundress of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (d. 1582).
• 1556 – In Valladolid, Philip II is solemnly proclaimed King of Spain.
• 1579 – Death of Navarrete el Mudo, Spanish Renaissance painter, the most important of the Spanish painters who worked in the service of Philip II in the decoration of the Monastery of El Escorial (b. 1538).
• 1631 – Death of Juan van der Hamen, Spanish Baroque painter of the Golden Age (b. 1596).
• 1750 – Birth of Francisco de Miranda, writer, diplomat and soldier, forerunner of the Hispanic American wars of independence, who also fought in the French Revolution and in the American War of Independence (d. 1816).
• 1798 – In Spain, the royal favorite Manuel Godoy tenders his resignation from his offices, which is accepted in terms of perpetual gratitude by King Charles IV.
• 1809 – In Vigo (Spain), a popular uprising, in the context of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, succeeds in expelling the French troops from the town, the first in Europe to achieve this.
• 1823 – In the Province of La Rioja (Argentina), the caudillo Juan Facundo Quiroga fights a lance duel with General Miguel Dávila. He kills him, and the Battle of El Puesto is fought between the two forces.
• 1838 – On the Río de la Plata (Argentina), the French rear admiral Louis François Leblanc declares the blockade of the port of Buenos Aires.
• 1844 – In Spain, Queen Isabella II creates the Guardia Civil corps by Royal Decree.
• 1845 – In Madrid (Spain), Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla premieres, the most representative play of Spanish Romanticism.
• 1864 – In Caracas (Venezuela), the Constitution of the United States of Venezuela comes into force.
• 1866 – In Madrid (Spain), the National Historical Archive is founded by Royal Decree, with the aim of gathering the documents from the monastic orders suppressed during the Confiscation.
• 1895 – Birth of Ángela Ruiz Robles, Spanish teacher, writer and inventor, inventor of a mechanical encyclopedia considered the first e-book in history (d. 1975).
• 1924 – Death of Zoel García de Galdeano, Spanish mathematician (b. 1846).
• 1936 – Birth of Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist, essayist, journalist and politician, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.
• 1935 – The Spanish aeronautical engineer Virgilio Leret patents in Madrid (Spain) the first jet engine, his continuous-reaction motor-turbo-compressor.
• 1939 – The Nationalist side takes Madrid, and four days later the Spanish Civil War ends.
• 1942 – Death of Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910).
• 1966 – Death of Ramón María Aller Ulloa, Spanish astronomer, mathematician and priest (b. 1878).
• 1996 – The Complutense University of Madrid closes the institutes of international studies created by Gustavo Villapalos.
• 2008 – Chile changes the date of the "time change" (normally the second Saturday of March, from UTC -3 to UTC -4) to alleviate an energy crisis.
• 2012 – Pope Benedict XVI meets Fidel Castro in Cuba, after celebrating Mass before hundreds of thousands of people in Havana.