Template:On this day - November 26

Isabella the Catholic

• 783 – Adosinda (Queen of Asturias) is confined to a monastery to prevent her nephew Alfonso from regaining the throne of Asturias (in present-day Spain) by wresting it from Mauregatus.
• 1504 – Death of Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile, Queen consort of Sicily and Aragon, Queen of Toledo, León, Galicia, Seville, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, the Algarve, Algeciras and Gibraltar, and Lady of Biscay and of Molina (b. 1451).
• 1585 – The first two members of the Society of Jesus arrive in the town of Santiago del Estero (Governorate of Tucumán, now in the center of Argentina).
• 1786 – Birth of José María Queipo de Llano, Spanish politician and historian, president between 1835 and 1836 (d. 1843).
• 1802 – The first group of Afro-Caribbean Garifuna arrives in Guatemala, led by the Haitian-born soldier Marcos Sánchez Díaz.
• 1820 – In the city of Trujillo (Venezuela), the Government of the Republic of Gran Colombia and the Kingdom of Spain sign the Armistice of Trujillo between pro-independence forces and royalists.
• 1838 – In Madrid (Spain), the Regulations for public schools are promulgated for the creation of a Normal School in each province, as established by the Law of Primary Instruction.
• 1865 – In Chile, the Naval Battle of Papudo is fought, in which the corvette Esmeralda (of Chile) captures the schooner Virgen de la Covadonga (of Spain).
• 1871 – In Havana (Cuba), Federico Capdevilla delivers his famous defense of the eight medical students, who are nevertheless executed by the Spanish Government the following day.
• 1931 – Birth of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine architect, artist and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize in 1980.
• 1897 – In Madrid (Spain), King Alfonso XIII offers autonomy to the territories of Cuba and Puerto Rico.
• 1951 – In Argentina, the República de los Niños is inaugurated, a theme park with small-scale public buildings.
• 1951 – In Paraguay, the government ends the state of war with West Germany, and diplomatic, commercial and financial relations are restored.
• 1985 – Mexico puts its satellite Morelos II into orbit.
• 2006 – In Ecuador, Rafael Correa is elected president.