Template:On this day - November 27

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

• 1380 – Birth of Ferdinand I of Aragon, King of Aragon (d. 1416).
• 1515 – In the Kingdom of Tierra Firme (present-day Venezuela), the city of Cumaná is founded by Dominican and Franciscan friars.
• 1520 – At the southern tip of America, Ferdinand Magellan crosses the strait that today bears his name.
• 1810 – In Spain, the first rules of procedure of the Cortes of Cádiz are created.
• 1811 – Death of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Spanish Enlightenment writer, jurist and politician.
• 1820 – In Santa Ana de Trujillo (Venezuela), Simón Bolívar and Pablo Morillo sign the Treaty of Armistice and Regularization of the War.
• 1838 – The Battle of San Juan de Ulúa begins, in which French troops defeat the Mexican Army in the State of Veracruz, Mexico.
• 1879 – At Tarapacá (Peru), the Battle of Tarapacá takes place during the land campaign of the War of the Pacific, in which Chilean and Peruvian forces clash, ending in victory for the latter.
• 1885 – In Spain, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta is sworn in as President of the Council before the Queen Regent, Maria Christina of Austria.
• 1907 – In Madrid (Spain), the Spanish Congress passes a law to rebuild the Navy.
• 1912 – France and Spain sign a treaty on the territory of present-day Morocco, by which Spain is granted the northern zone of the protectorate.
• 1931 – In Spain, Niceto Alcalá Zamora is elected a member of the Real Academia Española.
• 1970 – In Manila (Philippines), a failed assassination attempt is made on Pope Paul VI during his journey to the Far East.
• 1975 – Juan Carlos I is crowned King of Spain in the church of San Jerónimo el Real in Madrid.
• 1984 – Spain and Great Britain sign the "Brussels Declaration", in which the British side admits for the first time that questions of sovereignty in the Gibraltar dispute will be addressed.
• 1992 – A failed coup attempt in Venezuela takes place against the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez.
• 2011 – The mariachi, a musical genre of Mexico, is declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
• 2011 – Death of Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig, Italian-Argentine physician, the first to test the polio vaccine in Argentina (b. 1910).
• 2020 – Death of Selva Casal, Uruguayan poet and writer (b. 1927).
• 2021 – Death of Almudena Grandes, Spanish writer (b. 1960).