Template:On this day - November 1

Ferdinand Magellan

• 835 – In Rome, Pope Gregory IV has a large number of martyrs' bodies moved from the catacombs, consecrating a chapel in Saint Peter's Basilica in their honor, an event celebrated ever since as All Saints' Day.
• 928 – The Emir of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III founds the Mint to strike gold coins, which had not been issued in the Iberian Peninsula since 744.
• 1009 – The Caliph of Córdoba al-Mahdi is defeated at the Battle of Alcolea by the rebel Berbers, supported by the Count of Castile Sancho García, forcing him to abandon the capital and flee to Toledo.
• 1520 – Ferdinand Magellan enters the passage at the far south of South America, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, named in his honor the Strait of Magellan.
• 1549 – Birth of Anna of Austria, Queen consort of Spain, fourth wife of Philip II (d. 1580).
• 1549 – In the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), the city of Pamplona is founded.
• 1569 – In the Kingdom of Tierra Firme (present-day Panama), the Villa de Los Santos is founded.
• 1606 – In the Province of Charcas (present-day Bolivia), the city of Oruro is founded.
• 1700 – Charles II "the Bewitched", King of Spain, dies without an heir (b. 1661).
• 1755 – The Great Lisbon Earthquake strikes, affecting much of the Iberian Peninsula and killing between 60,000 and 100,000 people.
• 1878 – Birth of Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, diplomat and jurist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1936.
• 1910 – In Spain, the anarcho-syndicalist workers' organization CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo) is founded.
• 1950 – Death of Eloísa Díaz, the first woman physician in Chile (b. 1866).
• 1993 – Death of Severo Ochoa, Spanish physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1959.
• 1963 – In Arecibo (Puerto Rico), the Arecibo Observatory, the largest radio telescope in the world, is inaugurated.
• 1979 – In Bolivia, a coup d'état led by General Alberto Natusch Busch overthrows Wálter Guevara Arze, leaving 100 dead in the city of La Paz.
• 1993 – The Maastricht Treaty enters into force, leading to the creation of the European Union.
• 2001 – Death of Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño, Dominican short story writer, essayist, novelist, narrator, historian, educator and politician (b. 1909).
• 2012 – Death of Agustín García Calvo, Spanish grammarian, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and intellectual (b. 1926).