Template:On this day - November 14

Narciso Yepes

• 684 – In Visigothic Hispania (present-day Spain), the Fourteenth Council of Toledo opens.
• 1442 – Death of Yolande of Aragon, Infanta of the House of Aragon and Queen consort of the Kingdom of Naples and of Jerusalem (b. 1384).
• 1501 – The Prince of Wales, Arthur Tudor, marries Catherine of Aragon, daughter of the Catholic Monarchs.
• 1517 – In Spain, King Charles I naturalizes the Fleming William of Croÿ with the intention of appointing him Archbishop of Toledo. The appointment causes indignation in Castile and is considered one of the triggers of the War of the Communities of 1520.
• 1774 – In Havana (Captaincy General of Cuba), construction of the military fortress of San Carlos de La Cabaña is completed.
• 1781 – In the city of La Paz (Real Audiencia of Charcas, present-day Bolivia), the indigenous leader Túpac Katari is executed.
• 1813 – Death of Antonio de Capmany, Spanish writer, historian and politician (b. 1742).
• 1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, la Pola, who acted as a spy for the pro-independence forces of the United Provinces of New Granada during the period known as the Patria Boba, is executed by firing squad.
• 1863 – Death of José Jacinto Milanés, Cuban poet and playwright (b. 1814).
• 1840 – In Lima (Peru), the Colegio Nacional Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is founded.
• 1879 – In Spain, a Royal Decree makes the metric system compulsory from July 1880.
• 1883 – In Santiago de Chile, the Library of the National Congress is founded.
• 1909 – Death of Ramón Falcón, Argentine politician, soldier and police officer, at the hands of Simón Radowitzky, who threw a bomb at the carriage in which he was traveling (b. 1855).
• 1946 – Death of Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1876).
• 1968 – Death of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Spanish philologist and historian (b. 1869).
• 1975 – In Madrid, the Tripartite Accords are signed, by which the Kingdom of Spain unilaterally hands over the administration of Western Sahara to a tripartite administration formed by Spain, Morocco and Mauritania.
• 1927 – Birth of Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1997).
• 2006 – Francisco de Goya's painting "Niños del carretón" is stolen while being moved from the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio, USA).
• 2007 – In Tocopilla (Chile), a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the Richter scale strikes, leaving two dead and 95 injured.
• 2018 – Death of Fernando del Paso, Mexican writer, draftsman, painter, diplomat and academic (b. 1935).