Template:On this day - November 3

Martin de Porres

• 39 – Birth of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Roman poet of Hispanic origin (d. 65).
• 1450 – In Spain, the University of Barcelona is founded as the Estudio General de Barcelona.
• 1481 – In the Kingdom of Navarre, Francis of Foix is crowned king.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus sights La Désirade, in the Caribbean Sea, the first island discovered on his second voyage to the New World.
• 1536 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru, a Royal Decree confirms the transfer of the capital city from Jauja to the valley of the Rímac River, at Lima, known as the «City of the Kings».
• 1591 – In the territory now known as Portuguesa State (Venezuela), the Portuguese captain Juan Fernández de León founds the city of Guanare.
• 1592 – In the Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico), San Luis Potosí is granted the title of city.
• 1624 – In the Viceroyalty of New Spain, Rodrigo Pacheco y Osorio, Marquis of Cerralvo, takes office as the 15th Viceroy.
• 1639 – Death in Lima of Martin de Porres, religious of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the first mulatto saint of the Americas and «Universal Patron of Peace».
• 1762 – The Treaty of Paris is signed between Spain and France, by which Louisiana passes to Spanish rule.
• 1770 – In Louisiana, its governor Luis de Unzaga y Amézaga issues his legal code abolishing the regulation on the acquisition of slaves.
• 1780 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the first documents are printed at the Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos.
• 1792 – In New Galicia (today the State of Jalisco, Mexico), the University of Guadalajara opens its doors.
• 1814 – Death of Isidoro de Antillón, Spanish politician and historian (b. 1778).
• 1853 – In Mexico, William Walker and his band of filibusters proclaim the independence of Baja California.
• 1853 – Death of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Spanish politician and businessman, the main protagonist of the Spanish liberal revolution (b. 1790).
• 1867 – In Spain, the Spanish politician and writer Antonio Cánovas del Castillo joins the Real Academia Española.
• 1903 – Panama definitively separates from Colombia and is born as an independent state.
• 1986 – The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States.
• 1970 – In Chile, Salvador Allende takes office as constitutional president.
• 1995 – The 1995 Río Tercero explosions take place, a criminal attack in the province of Córdoba, leaving 7 dead and at least 300 injured to varying degrees.
• 1999 – In Spain, the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón indicts 98 Argentine military officers for the disappearances that occurred during the military dictatorship in Argentina.
• 2001 – Death of Mariano Navarro Rubio, Spanish economist, military officer and politician (b. 1914).