Template:On this day - November 11

Francisco Pérez Bayer

• 844 – The Emirate of Córdoba defeats the Viking hosts at the Battle of Tablada.
• 1155 – Birth of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile (d. 1214).
• 1285 – Death of Peter III, King of Aragon (b. 1240).
• 1500 – The Catholic Monarchs ratify the Treaty of Granada, a military alliance agreed between Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
• 1511 – In the Cuban village of Yara (Province of Oriente), the cacique Hatuey is condemned to be burned at the stake.
• 1711 – Birth of Francisco Pérez Bayer, Spanish philologist, numismatist and jurist (d. 1794).
• 1777 – In the Captaincy General of Chile, the city of Quillota is founded.
• 1810 – In Córdoba (Spain), the poet Manuel María Arjona founds the Royal Academy of Córdoba.
• 1811 – Cartagena de Indias (in present-day Colombia) becomes independent from Spain, the first city to do so.
• 1817 – In Mexico, the soldier Javier Mina is executed by firing squad (b. 1789).
• 1827 – In Popayán (Colombia), the University of Cauca is founded.
• 1828 – In Arequipa (Peru), the National University of Saint Augustine is founded.
• 1911 – Birth of Roberto Matta, Chilean architect, painter, philosopher and poet.
• 1951 – In Argentina, women vote for the first time. Its architect, Evita Perón, does so for the first and last time (as she was ill with cancer) at the Presidente Perón polyclinic.
• 1961 – In Caracas (Venezuela), the then President of Venezuela, Rómulo Betancourt, announces his decision to break off diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.