Template:On this day - May 16

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

• 1321 – Ismail II of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain) signs an advantageous Treaty of Peace and Friendship with James II of Aragon for 5 years, which will later be renewed.
• 1509 – The squadron that, under the command of Cardinal Cisneros, was to conquer Oran (in present-day Algeria) sets sail from the port of Cartagena.
• 1540 – Birth of Paschal Baylon, Franciscan friar, patron of Eucharistic works, associations and congresses, and of cooks (d. 1592).
• 1567 – Death of Juan Bautista de Toledo, Spanish Renaissance architect responsible for the works of the Monastery of El Escorial (b. 1515).
• 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes the sixth Governor-General of the Philippines.
• 1696 – Death of Mariana of Austria, Spanish Queen consort (b. 1634).
• 1708 – Birth of Torcuato Ruiz del Peral, Spanish painter, sculptor and image maker (d. 1773).
• 1764 – The Royal College of Artillery is inaugurated in the Alcázar of Segovia (Spain), the oldest military academy in the world still active.
• 1809 – Birth of Juan de la Pezuela, Spanish writer, military officer and politician (d. 1906).
• 1811 – In the course of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, troops of Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom, commanded by the Duke of Wellington, defeat the French army at the Battle of La Albuera.
• 1894 – Death of Germán Hernández Amores, Spanish painter (b. 1823).
• 1956 – During the first agreement of the Paris Club, the renegotiation of Argentina's debt is arranged.
• 1980 – Death of Luis Heysen Incháustegui, Peruvian engineer, sociologist and politician (b. 1903).
• 2001 – The Boricua pro-independence leader Rubén Berríos is sentenced to four months in prison by a United States federal court (the United States has kept the island of Puerto Rico invaded since 1898).
• 2013 – The Wikipedia in Spanish reaches one million articles.