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Ciriaco González Carvajal

• 1188 – Birth of Blanche of Castile, Infanta of Castile and Queen consort of France (d. 1252).
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches Lisbon aboard the ship La Niña after the first voyage to the New World.
• 1606 – The Spanish Court returns to Madrid after spending some time in Valladolid, during which the city became the capital of Spain.
• 1793 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, the third Parliament of Negrete between the Mapuche and the viceregal authorities begins.
• 1810 – Joseph Bonaparte arrives in Málaga (Spain) after the French army has taken the city.
• 1811 – Death of Mariano Moreno, Argentine politician and member of the First Junta of Buenos Aires, while traveling to England across the Atlantic Ocean; he is then thrown into the sea wrapped in an English flag (b. 1778).
• 1812 – First draw of the Spanish National Lottery, instituted by the Cortes of Cádiz on the initiative of Ciriaco González Carvajal to raise funds for the Public Treasury, which had been severely weakened by the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain.
• 1813 – In New Spain, the Spanish general Félix María Calleja takes office as Viceroy.
• 1814 – Death of Carlos Spano, Spanish soldier in the service of the pro-independence cause of Chile (b. 1773).
• 1861 – Spain accepts the offer of Santo Domingo to rejoin the Spanish nation.
• 1894 – Death of Arístides Rojas, Venezuelan writer, naturalist, physician, historian and journalist (b. 1826).
• 1923 – The Argentine Government frees married women from civil guardianship, recognizing their full legal capacity to buy and lease public lands.
• 1923 – At the Royal Academy of Sciences of Madrid, Alfonso XIII presents the German physicist Albert Einstein with the title of academician.
• 1929 – The National Revolutionary Party (PNR) is founded in Mexico; it will later be called the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
• 1926 – The Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Company of America is founded in the United States for the commercial exploitation of the "La Cierva" autogyro.
• 1948 – Argentina and Chile sign an agreement on sovereignty over Antarctica, under which both countries commit to act jointly in defense of the territory.
• 1968 – In Barcelona (Spain), Pablo Picasso donates to the museum that bears his name his extraordinary series of canvases inspired by Las Meninas.
• 1975 – First meeting of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization, held in Madrid (Spain), a city designated as the institution's headquarters.
• 2004 – Death of Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish philologist, director of the Royal Spanish Academy (b. 1923).
• 2020 – Death of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat and lawyer, Secretary-General of the UN between 1982 and 1991 (b. 1920).