Template:On this day - November 7

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

• 994 – Birth of Ibn Hazm, Hispano-Arab philosopher, theologian and poet (d. 1064).
• 1519 – In Toledo, the comunero leaders present the First Manifesto to the Castilians against the policy of Charles I.
• 1598 – Birth of Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter and poet (d. 1664).
• 1659 – The Treaty of the Pyrenees is signed between Mazarin, representing France, and Don Luis de Haro, representing the Spanish side, by which Spain loses Roussillon except for the town of Llívia.
• 1705 – In Barcelona, the Archduke Charles is proclaimed King of Spain.
• 1733 – In El Escorial (Spain), the first Family Compact is signed.
• 1808 – In the Dominican Republic, the Battle of Palo Hincado is fought, ending French control of the island of Hispaniola and marking the beginning of the period known as «España Boba».
• 1813 – In the course of the Napoleonic Invasion of Spain, the Anglo-Portuguese-Spanish Army commanded by Wellington enters France in pursuit of the retreating French army.
• 1823 – In Madrid (Spain), General Rafael del Riego is publicly executed; on 1 January 1820 he had risen in the so-called Riego's Pronunciamiento.
• 1847 – El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua sign the Central American unionist conference known as the Pact of Nacaome and establish a provisional government seated in Tegucigalpa.
• 1916 – Birth of Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, Mexican writer, historian, researcher and academic (d. 2012).
• 1945 – Mexico joins the United Nations Organization (UN).
• 1987 – In New York (United States), the Spanish scientist Federico Mayor Zaragoza is appointed Director-General of UNESCO.
• 2005 – In Santiago de Chile, the former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who was planning to return to Peru, is detained by order of the Chilean judiciary, which issued an arrest warrant against him.
• 2011 – Death of Tomás Segovia, Spanish writer, poet and essayist, naturalized Mexican (b. 1927).
• 2019 – Death of Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and researcher (b. 1938).