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Joanna I of Castile

• 1479 – Birth of Joanna I of Castile, called «the Mad», titular Queen of Castile, Aragon and Navarre, wife of King Philip I (d. 1555).
• 1519 – In New Spain, Hernán Cortés and the Spanish army take up quarters in Iztapalapa, the threshold of Tenochtitlan.
• 1524 – In the Province of Tierra Firme (present-day Colombia), Rodrigo Galván de Bastidas founds the village of Santa Marta, the first settlement established by Spaniards in that region.
• 1528 – Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico and becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas (present-day United States).
• 1711 – Birth of Andrés Piquer, Spanish physician and philosopher (d. 1772).
• 1617 – In Spain, the Peace of Madrid is signed, ending the War of Gradisca between the Republic of Venice and the Habsburg Empire.
• 1809 – In Buenos Aires, the Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros decrees free trade in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
• 1813 – The deputies of the Congress of Anáhuac sign the Acta Solemne de la Declaración de Independencia de la América Septentrional, by which the insurgents proclaim the separation of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from the Spanish throne.
• 1844 – The Dominican Republic adopts its first constitution after becoming independent from Haiti on 27 February.
• 1878 – In Argentina, the troops of Lieutenant Colonel Conrado Villegas capture Cacique Pincén.
• 1881 – The President of Peru Francisco García Calderón is abducted and deported to Chile aboard the ironclad Almirante Cochrane.
• 1920 – Death of Arturo Soria, Spanish engineer and urban planner (b. 1844).
• 1936 – The Spanish Republican Government moves from Madrid to Valencia because of the advance of the rebel troops during the Civil War.
• 1975 – Some 350,000 civilians and 25,000 Moroccan soldiers begin the Green March into the Sahara, intending to annex the territory administered by Spain.
• 1976 – Birth of Lluvia Rojo, Spanish actress, singer and songwriter.
• 1984 – In Nicaragua, the Sandinista National Liberation Front wins the presidential elections.
• 1985 – In Colombia, 35 guerrillas of the M-19 attack the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, taking 400 people hostage (among them the 11 justices of the Supreme Court of Justice). After a failed negotiation, the Colombian Army retakes control of the building, and 115 people die, murdered by the subversives and in the crossfire (including the 11 justices, more than 70 hostages and almost all the guerrillas).
• 1987 – In Guanajuato (Mexico), the Spanish President Felipe González and the Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid inaugurate the Museo Iconográfico del Quijote.
• 1998 – In Spain, the Government submits to the British authorities the request for the extradition of the former Chilean ruler Augusto Pinochet, at the demand of the Audiencia Nacional judge Baltasar Garzón.
• 2005 – The former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori arrives in Santiago de Chile from Tokyo on a private flight, ending his Japanese exile.
• 2020 – Death of Fernando "Pino" Solanas, Argentine film director, screenwriter, politician and ambassador to UNESCO (b. 1936).