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Template:On this day - November 19
From Hispanopedia
- 936 – In the Caliphate of Córdoba (present-day Spain), Abd al-Rahman III begins the construction of Medina Azahara.
- 1423 – Alfonso V of Aragon returns to the County of Barcelona after the uprising of Naples.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches the island of Puerto Rico on his second voyage of exploration, naming it San Juan Bautista in honor of John of Aragon, Prince of Asturias.
- 1564 – Miguel López de Legazpi leaves New Spain in command of an expedition to conquer and settle the Philippines.
- 1659 – Guillén de Lampart, an Irish immigrant who passed himself off as a son of Philip III of Spain with the idea of ruling the Viceroyalty of New Spain, is burned at the stake (b. 1611).
- 1810 – In Spain, the Cortes of Cádiz approve the treaty of alliance with England of 14 January 1809.
- 1819 – In Madrid (Spain), the Prado Museum opens, under the direction of José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán y Waldstein, Marquis of Santa Cruz de Mudela.
- 1837 – In Cuba, the first railway of Spain and Ibero-America opens, between Havana, Bejucal and Güines.
- 1875 – In Catalonia, General Arsenio Martínez-Campos puts an end to the last pockets of Carlist resistance.
- 1882 – In Argentina, Dardo Rocha founds the city of La Plata.
- 1906 – In Montevideo (Uruguay), the inaugural run of the public electric tram service takes place.
- 1984 – In the town of San Juan Ixhuatepec (State of Mexico), a series of explosions at the facilities of Petróleos Mexicanos leaves between 500 and 600 people burned to death and several thousand injured, as well as the evacuation of some 200,000 people from the north of the Valley of Mexico.
- 2002 – Off the coast of Galicia (Spain), the final sinking of the oil tanker Prestige, which began on 13 November, takes place.
- 2012 – The International Court of Justice at The Hague announces its ruling on the territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua.
- 2017 – Death of Fernando Matthei, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Air Force (b. 1925).
- 2020 – Death of Nelly Raymond, Argentine journalist, host, announcer, producer, television director, dancer and actress (b. 1932).
