Template:On this day - November 5

Alejandro Malaspina

• 1529 – In Valladolid (Spain), a council meets and decides to create the administrative division of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
• 1553 – In the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the Viceroy Luis de Velasco y Castilla opens the courses of the School of Law, founded on this date and dependent on the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico.
• 1568 – In the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the government of the Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almansa begins.
• 1712 – Philip V of Spain signs an act renouncing the crown of France for himself and his descendants.
• 1754 – Birth of Alejandro Malaspina, Spanish aristocrat and naval officer (d. 1809).
• 1764 – In the Kingdom of Chile, the port of Talcahuano is founded.
• 1807 – In Spain, King Charles IV pardons the treason of his son Ferdinand VII, implicated in the Conspiracy of El Escorial.
• 1810 – In the Province of Cádiz (Spain), the invading French troops begin the siege of the Isla de León.
• 1843 – At the Ácana and Concepción sugar mills, in the district of Sabanilla (Cuba), several dozen slaves rise up, led by Negra Carlota.
• 1838 – Honduras proclaims its independence and separates from the Central American Federation.
• 1851 – In Mexico, the first telegraph line opens, covering the 130 km between Mexico City and the town of Nopalucan.
• 1867 – Death of Leopoldo O'Donnell, Spanish soldier and politician (b. 1809).
• 1884 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the National Teachers' Library is created.
• 1891 – In Bogotá (Colombia), the National Police of Colombia is created.
• 1894 – Death of Manuel Payno, Mexican writer, soldier, journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1810).
• 1903 – In Panama, the separation from Colombia is consolidated.
• 1910 – Spain adopts the decision to introduce the standard European track gauge for its railways.
• 1924 – In the Dominican Republic, the invading army of the United States withdraws from the country, ending an 8-year occupation.
• 1971 – In Bolivia, the death penalty is approved for political kidnappings.
• 1971 – In Madrid (Spain), commandos of the «anti-Marxist struggle» destroy 24 prints by Pablo Picasso.
• 1978 – In Cuba, the city of Baracoa (founded in 1512) is proclaimed the «First Town of Cuba».
• 1979 – The first group of one hundred Cuban teachers of the «Augusto César Sandino» contingent arrives in Nicaragua.
• 1982 – On the border between Paraguay and Brazil, the Itaipú hydroelectric plant is inaugurated, at the time the largest in the world.
• 1991 – At the Caja Agraria in Bogotá (Colombia), almost 3,000 million dollars are stolen in an action described as the «robbery of the century».
• 1994 – In the Province of Huelva (Spain), Doñana Park is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
• 2006 – In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega wins the presidential elections.
• 2023 – Death of Enrique Dussel, Argentine academic, philosopher, historian and theologian, naturalized Mexican (b. 1934).