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John of God

• 1126 – In Spain, Alfonso VII is proclaimed King of León after the death of his mother, Queen Urraca.
• 1293 – Birth of Beatrice of Castile, natural daughter of Alfonso X the Wise, who would become queen consort of Portugal and the Algarve (d. 1359).
• 1545 – In Paraguay, the encomenderos send the conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca to Spain as a prisoner.
• 1550 – Death of John of God, forerunner of modern nursing, founder of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God, and Patron saint of the sick, nurses, hospitals and firefighters (b. 1495).
• 1576 – Diego García de Palacio is the first European to report the existence of the ruins of Copán, described in writing to King Philip II of Spain in his Relatos de Copán.
• 1576 – In the region of Flanders, during the Eighty Years' War, the Spanish governor Luis de Requesens is buried, after lying unburied for three days for lack of funds.
• 1610 – In Madrid (Spain), King Philip III orders the establishment of the Catholic Inquisition in Cartagena de Indias (in present-day Colombia).
• 1678 – In the Spanish Netherlands, the city of Ghent capitulates to an army of 40,000 French soldiers.
• 1820 – In Madrid (Spain), Ferdinand VII swears to the Constitution and abolishes the Inquisition.
• 1836 – In Madrid (Spain), Juan Álvarez Mendizábal issues his third decree, which abolished all monasteries, convents, congregations and other community houses or houses of religious institutes of men.
• 1839 – The Central Normal School of Teachers opens in Madrid (Spain).
• 1844 – In Alicante (Spain), a liberal uprising known as the Boné Rebellion takes place.
• 1861 – At the Tuileries (France), Pablo Sarasate gives his first concert at the age of 17, before Napoleon III and his court.
• 1921 – On leaving the Congress of Deputies (in Madrid, Spain), the President of the Government, Eduardo Dato, is assassinated.
• 1922 – In Spain, the Maura-Cambó Government falls and is replaced by that of José Sánchez Guerra.
• 1925 – Death of Faustino Míguez, priest of the Order of the Pious Schools, founder of the Calasanctian Institute Sons of the Divine Shepherdess, educator, botanist, and founder of the Míguez laboratories (b. 1831).
• 1928 – The Council of the League of Nations appeals to Spain and Brazil not to withdraw from the institution.
• 1936 – International Working Women's Day is celebrated in Spain for the first time.
• 1986 – In Santiago de Chile, a massive women's demonstration takes place against the dictator Augusto Pinochet, with 101 women arrested and very many injured.
• 2006 – The Spanish Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles.
• 2006 – Death of Jorge Eielson, Peruvian poet of the Generation of the Fifties (b. 1924).
• 2017 – In the municipality of San José Pinula, in the Republic of Guatemala, the Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home tragedy occurs, in which 41 girls died.
• 2018 – In Spain, a feminist general strike takes place on the occasion of International Working Women's Day, joined by 5.3 million women workers and with massive demonstrations throughout the country.
• 2021 – Death of Cepillín, Mexican dentist, clown, television presenter and singer (b. 1946).