Template:On this day - November 4

José Carrillo de Albornoz

• 683 – In Visigothic Hispania, the Thirteenth Council of Toledo opens.
• 1359 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain), Muhammad V leaves Guadix for exile in the Maghreb, having been deposed by his brother Ismail II.
• 1519 – In Valencia (Spain), the movement of the Germanías begins.
• 1549 – In Spain, Charles V promulgates the Pragmatic Sanction.
• 1585 – In the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia), the municipality of Gámeza (Boyacá) is founded.
• 1576 – In Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium), mutinous Spanish tercios come to the aid of the troops of Sancho Dávila besieged in the city's castle, and then sack the city for 3 days, in what became known as the Spanish Fury.
• 1706 – Death of Antonio Teodoro Ortells, Spanish Baroque composer (b. 1649).
• 1741 – The Spanish naval expedition sets out from Barcelona (Spain) for the Milanese, under the command of the Duke of Montemar.
• 1769 – In New Spain (present-day United States), the Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá discovers San Francisco Bay.
• 1780 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the cacique José Gabriel Condorcanqui, known as Túpac Amaru, rises in arms.
• 1810 – In the Kingdom of Tierra Firme (present-day Venezuela), the Battle of Aguanegra takes place, considered the first battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence.
• 1811 – In Bornos (Cádiz, Spain), General Francisco Ballesteros with 400 civilians defeats the French troops of General Semelé.
• 1831 – In Caracas (Venezuela), the Academy of Mathematics begins its activities under the direction of Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo.
• 1909 – Birth of Ciro Alegría, Peruvian writer, politician and journalist (d. 1967).
• 1950 – In New York (United States), the UN General Assembly revokes its condemnation of the Francoist dictatorship in Spain.
• 1981 – In Madrid (Spain), the First Ibero-American Summit on Economic Cooperation opens.
• 1984 – In Nicaragua, the Sandinista Front wins the first elections after the overthrow of the Somoza regime.
• 2007 – In Santiago del Estero (Argentina), 39 inmates of the maximum-security prison die in a fire during a failed escape attempt.
• 2009 – In Spain, the Audiencia Nacional (at the request of Rigoberta Menchú) orders the international arrest of the Guatemalan captain José Antonio Solares for organizing the torture and massacre of 1,545 indigenous people of the Maya Achi ethnic group.