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Template:On this day - November 25
From Hispanopedia
- 1491 – In Santa Fe (in the newly conquered Nasrid Kingdom of Granada), the Capitulations of Granada are signed, ending the war waged between the Catholic Monarchs and the Sultan Muhammad XII.
- 1496 – In Spain, Alonso Fernández de Lugo is named «adelantado» of the Canary Islands.
- 1541 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the Villa de Santa Catalina de Guadalcázar del Valle de Moquegua (present-day city of Moquegua) is founded.
- 1550 – In the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the government of the Viceroy Luis de Velasco y Ruiz de Alarcón begins.
- 1562 – Birth of Lope de Vega, Spanish poet and playwright of the Golden Age, one of the most prolific authors of world literature (d. 1635).
- 1578 – In Madrid (Spain), Philip II orders the American bishops to reprimand clergy who mistreat the Indians.
- 1724 – In Madrid (Spain), the first meeting of the general Cortes of the Spanish kingdom is held.
- 1812 – Oaxaca (present-day Mexico) falls to the pro-independence troops commanded by José María Morelos y Pavón.
- 1852 – Birth of Eduardo de Hinojosa y Naveros, Spanish politician, historian and archaeologist (d. 1919).
- 1885 – Death of Alfonso XII, King of Spain (b. 1857).
- 1886 – In San Sebastián Bay (Tierra del Fuego), Argentine soldiers led by Captain Ramón Lista (1856-1897) kill 28 Ona Indians (San Sebastián beach massacre).
- 1897 – In Madrid, Luis Muñoz Rivera receives the Autonomic Charter of Puerto Rico from the hands of the President of the Spanish Government, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta.
- 1956 – In Mexico, Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl, Che Guevara and 79 other expedition members sail from the port of Tuxpan on the yacht Granma to start the Cuban Revolution.
- 1960 – The Mirabal sisters, opponents of the dictatorship of Trujillo, are murdered in the Dominican Republic.
- 1986 – UNESCO declares the cities of Toledo and Cáceres, the Mudéjar monumental ensemble of Teruel and Garajonay National Park World Heritage Sites.
- 2016 – Death of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution (b. 1926).
