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Isabel de Borbón

• 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the Bull Pastoralis praeeminentiae, which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest the Knights Templar and confiscate their property.
• 1462 – First written record of the arrival of the Gitano People in Andalusia (Spain), in the «Hechos del condestable Don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo».
• 1504 – In Madrid, Ferdinand the Catholic grants Colmenar Viejo the status of Town.
• 1559 – In Spain, King Philip II issues a Pragmatic forbidding Castilian subjects to study at foreign universities, except that of Coimbra in Portugal and the Italian ones of Bologna, Rome and Naples.
• 1574 – A group of Spanish navigators under Juan Fernández, during a voyage from Callao (present-day Peru) to Valparaíso (present-day Chile), are driven off course by a storm and reach the Juan Fernández Islands. They are the first Europeans to sight those islands.
• 1602 – Birth of Isabel de Borbón, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1644).
• 1822 – By the Secret Treaty of Verona, the absolutist monarchies of the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of France decide to send the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis to Spain.
• 1824 – Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador promulgate the Constitution uniting the five countries in the Federal Republic of Central America.
• 1833 – Birth of Cecilio Pujazón y García, Spanish soldier and astronomer (d. 1891).
• 1861 – 80 km west of Rosario (Argentina), Buenos Aires Unitarian troops of the Uruguayan soldier Venancio Flores put to the sword 300 Argentine Federalist soldiers in the Cañada de Gómez massacre.
• 1896 – Death of Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican lawyer, politician, soldier, writer, historian, journalist and diplomat (b. 1832).
• 1898 – Death of Enrique de las Morenas y Fossi, Spanish politician, Governor of the Philippines (b. 1855).
• 1919 – Death of Francisco Pascasio Moreno, Argentine scientist and explorer (b. 1852).
• 1934 – In Spain, the engineer and pilot Ramón Torres Guasch begins his flight to Africa. He will be the first Spanish aviator to cross the Sahara Desert.
• 1949 – In Argentina, the constitutional president Juan Domingo Perón publishes decree no. 29,337 ordering that the country's national universities be free of charge for the inhabitants of Argentina and of all Latin American countries.
• 1955 – In Buenos Aires (in the context of the coup d'état against the constitutional government of Juan Domingo Perón), Argentine Army officers enter the CGT (Confederación General del Trabajo) and seize the embalmed body of Eva Perón.
• 1969 – The American Convention on Human Rights (Pact of San José) is signed in San José de Costa Rica.
• 1975 – Juan Carlos I is proclaimed King of Spain.
• 2000 – In Peru, Valentín Paniagua Corazao becomes transitional president after the resignation of Alberto Fujimori from Japan.
• 2022 – Death of Pablo Milanés, Cuban singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943).