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Template:On this day - March 5
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- 1329 – In the Kingdom of Navarre (present-day Spain), Joan II and her husband Philip of Évreux are crowned King and Queen.
- 1535 – The village of Trujillo is founded in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
- 1576 – Death of Luis de Requesens, Spanish soldier, naval officer, diplomat and politician, Governor of the State of Milan and of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1528).
- 1644 – In Valencia, the King of Spain approves the first Galera (women's prison).
- 1656 – Death of Sebastián de Rocafull, Spanish mathematician and military engineer (b. 1618).
- 1701 – The village of Maracay, today a city, is founded in Venezuela.
- 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, first Spanish Governor of Louisiana (present-day United States), arrives in New Orleans.
- 1794 – Death of Ramón de la Cruz, Spanish writer and playwright (b. 1731).
- 1838 – In Spain, the Carlist attack on Zaragoza fails, in what is known as the Cincomarzada.
- 1847 – In Spain, Queen Isabella II authorizes the Seville City Council to hold the April Fair.
- 1860 – Queen Isabella II of Spain creates by decree the Official Meteorology service in Spain.
- 1878 – In the Dominican Republic, Cesáreo Guillermo y Bastardo begins his first term as president.
- 1916 – Off Brazil, the Spanish ship Príncipe de Asturias sinks with more than 500 passengers on board.
- 1927 – In Cádiz (Spain), the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano is launched.
- 1964 – Ecuador and Spain sign an agreement on dual nationality.
- 1965 – Cuba donates 10,000 tonnes of sugar to Vietnam.
- 1975 – In Buenos Aires, the Montoneros and the Argentine Liberation Front release the president of the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice, kidnapped on February 28 1975, in exchange for the release of the guerrilla Sergio Schneider.
- 1985 – A fire devastates the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador).
- 1991 – In Puerto Rico, the Spanish language is declared the only official language of that country, repealing its co-official status with English.
- 2013 – Death of Hugo Chávez, politician, soldier and President of Venezuela between 1999 and 2013 (b. 1954).
- 2014 – Venezuela breaks off political, diplomatic and commercial relations with Panama.
