Template:On this day - November 15

Gabriela Mistral

• 1099 – Death of Elvira of Toro, daughter of King Ferdinand I of León and of Sancha of León (b. 1038).
• 1532 – Near Cajamarca (present-day Peru), the Spanish conquistadors led by Hernando de Soto meet the Inca Atahualpa for the first time.
• 1533 – In the south of present-day Peru, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro reaches Cusco, capital of the Inca Empire.
• 1537 – In Granada (Spain), the Universidad Literaria de Granada, created by Charles V, is inaugurated.
• 1573 – In Argentina, Juan de Garay founds the village of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz.
• 1747 – Birth of Eugenio Larruga, Spanish economist and writer (d. 1803).
• 1839 – The Capitulation of Yanallay is signed, putting an end to the Peru–Bolivian Confederation.
• 1870 – In Colombia, the Banco de Bogotá is founded as the country's first financial institution since independence.
• 1904 – In Ancón (Panama), U.S. Marines land to invade the country.
• 1915 – Birth of Billo Frómeta, Dominican musician, composer and conductor.
• 1922 – In Guayaquil (Ecuador), the Massacre of workers of 15 November 1922 takes place, in which hundreds of workers are killed by the military.
• 1935 – In the Philippines, Manuel L. Quezon is named the second President of that country under U.S. rule.
• 1945 – The Chilean poet, educator and diplomat Gabriela Mistral receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Hispanic American to win that award.
• 1961 – Death of Artemio de Valle Arizpe, Mexican lawyer, politician, diplomat, writer and historian (b. 1884).
• 1974 – Spain puts Intasat, its first artificial satellite, into orbit.
• 1990 – In Spain, the Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares wins the Cervantes Prize.
• 2003 – In Cruz del Eje (Argentina), the museum in memory of former president Arturo Umberto Illia opens.
• 2016 – Death of Sixto Durán Ballén, President of Ecuador between 1992 and 1996 (b. 1921).
• 2017 – In Argentina, the Argentine Navy submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) disappears.