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Template:On this day - November 17
From Hispanopedia
- 1453 – Birth of Alfonso of Castile, Infante of Castile (d. 1468).
- 1499 – From Spain, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón sets sail from the port of Palos de la Frontera with four caravels, with which he would reach Brazil.
- 1557 – From the Viceroyalty of Peru (present-day Chile), the Spanish navigator Juan Ladrillero sets sail from the port of Valdivia for Desolación Island and the Strait of Magellan.
- 1566 – In Spain, Philip II promulgates the Pragmatic Sanction of 1567, which banned the use of the Arabic language and various Muslim customs of the Moriscos of Granada.
- 1576 – Birth of Roque González de Santa Cruz, Hispano-Paraguayan missionary and religious (d. 1628).
- 1617 – In Veracruz (Mexico), the Viceroy Diego Fernández de Córdoba orders the founding of the village of Córdoba.
- 1659 – Spain and France make peace in the Pyrenees.
- 1729 – Birth of Maria Antonietta of Spain, Sardinian queen (d. 1785).
- 1831 – Present-day Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia.
- 1928 – Death of Juan José Muñoz de Madariaga, Spanish engineer (b. 1846).
- 1934 – In the course of the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, Paraguayan forces capture the Bolivian fort of Ballivián.
- 1947 – Death of Regina de Lamo, Spanish writer, journalist and intellectual (b. 1870).
- 1972 – In Argentina, former president Juan Domingo Perón returns after 17 years of exile, although this time he will stay in Argentina for only a month.
- 1980 – In El Crucero (Nicaragua), the businessman Jorge Salazar, vice president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), is murdered by State Security agents.
- 1982 – At the Pascual Guerrero Stadium in the city of Cali (Colombia), a stampede at the end of a football match kills 24 spectators (12 of them children).
- 1983 – In Mexico, the EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) is formed in secret.
- 2012 – Death of Emilio Aragón Bermúdez (Miliki), Spanish clown, accordionist and singer (b. 1929).
- 2018 – In Peru, former president Alan García Pérez requests political asylum at the embassy of Uruguay after receiving an 18-month ban on leaving the country.
- 2020 – In Lima, Francisco Sagasti assumes the presidency of Peru after the resignation of the then head of state, Manuel Merino.
