Template:On this day - November 24

Egica

• 700 – In Visigothic Hispania, the Visigothic King Egica orders the royal anointing of his son Wittiza, although he did not assume all the royal functions until his father's death.
• 1518 – The Spanish soldier Fadrique Enríquez de Ribera sets out from Bornos (Cádiz, Spain) on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
• 1583 – Birth of Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet, scholar and painter (d. 1641).
• 1658 – Death of Ignacio Molarja, Italian Jesuit missionary and explorer of New Spain (b. 1610).
• 1682 – In Rome, Pope Innocent XI declares the lead books of Granada (Spain) apocryphal and false.
• 1724 – Birth of Maria Amalia of Saxony, Neapolitan and Spanish Queen consort (d. 1760).
• 1818 – In present-day United States, the Franco-Argentine privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard, in command of the frigates Argentina and Chacabuco, seizes the Spanish stronghold of San Carlos de Monterrey (present-day city of Salinas).
• 1822 – In Argentina, the provinces of Buenos Aires and Santa Fe conclude the Treaty of Benegas.
• 1849 – England signs an agreement with the Province of Buenos Aires (governed by Juan Manuel de Rosas) by which it withdraws from the blockade of the Río de la Plata that it was carrying out together with France.
• 1891 – Birth of Mariano Ospina Pérez, engineer and politician, President of Colombia between 1946 and 1950 (d. 1976).
• 1900 – The United States army invades Colombia (on the pretext of securing the operation of the railway lines) as part of the U.S. policy of securing its interests in Latin America.
• 1939 – In Spain, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) is created by founding law.
• 1948 – In Venezuela, President Rómulo Gallegos is overthrown in a coup d'état.
• 1978 – In Bolivia, General David Padilla betrays the Republic and carries out a coup d'état.
• 2004 – Death of Juan Pérez de Tudela, Spanish Americanist historian, member of the Royal Academy of History (b. 1922).
• 2014 – In Honduras, general elections are held and won by the National Party of Honduras candidate Juan Orlando Hernández, amid allegations of electoral fraud.
• 2016 – Death of Marcos Ana, the political prisoner of the Franco regime who spent the longest time in prison (b. 1920).