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Juan Bautista Topete y Carballo

• 1612 – In the upper valley of the Magdalena River (present-day Colombia), Diego de Ospina y Medinilla founds the village of Neiva.
• 1665 – Death of María de Jesús de Ágreda, Spanish nun and writer (b. 1602).
• 1723 – Birth of Antonio Caballero y Góngora, Spanish cleric and Viceroy of New Granada (d. 1796).
• 1817 – Death of Juan Meléndez Valdés, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1754).
• 1821 – Birth of Juan Bautista Topete, Spanish naval officer and politician (d. 1885).
• 1822 – Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre conquer Quito, held by the royalist army, at the Battle of Pichincha.
• 1846 – In Mexico, in the course of the United States intervention, the American general Zachary Taylor captures the city of Monterrey.
• 1866 – In the course of the War of the Triple Alliance, the Battle of Tuyutí is fought between the allied forces of Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay against Paraguay; to this day it is the largest battle ever fought in South America.
• 1872 – In Spain the Convention of Amorebieta is concluded, which put an end to the Carlist uprising of the previous 14 April.
• 1876 – The Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the Constitution that remained in force in Spain until the Second Republic (except for the interlude of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera).
• 1880 – Birth of Manuel Romero de Terreros, Mexican historian and writer (d. 1965).
• 1897 – Ricardo Delgado lands at Bacuranao (Havana) with a large quantity of war supplies.
• 1930 – Death of Miguel Cárdenas de los Santos, Mexican lawyer and politician (b. 1855).
• 1949 – Birth of Ricardo Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, actor and producer of film.
• 1974 – In Salamanca (Spain) the National School of Aeronautics (ENA) is created.
• 1979 – Germán Pomares, Nicaraguan revolutionary, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), dies in combat (b. 1937).
• 1981 – In Ecuador president Jaime Roldós dies in a plane crash. Vice President Osvaldo Hurtado assumes the presidency.
• 1996 – Death of José Cuatrecasas Arumí, Spanish botanist and pharmacist (b. 1903).
• 2007 – Death of Inés Gebhard, Chilean teacher, university academic and pianist (b. 1913).
• 2017 – Lenín Moreno assumes the presidency of Ecuador.
• 2021 – Guillermo Lasso assumes the presidency of Ecuador, ending fourteen years of left-wing governments.