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Martín Fernández de Navarrete

• 1246 – Death of Berengaria of Castile, Castilian aristocrat, wife of King Alfonso IX of León (b. 1180).
• 1512 – Death of Cardinal Cisneros, Archbishop of Toledo (b. 1436).
• 1519 – Hernán Cortés reaches the gates of Tenochtitlan, and Moctezuma II, emperor of the Aztecs, comes out to receive him.
• 1539 – King Charles I of Spain grants a coat of arms and the title of city to the new town of Guadalajara (in New Spain, present-day Mexico).
• 1557 – In Araucanía (present-day Chile), the troops of the Governor García Hurtado de Mendoza face the Mapuche of the cacique Turcupichun for the first time at the Battle of Lagunillas.
• 1576 – In the Habsburg Netherlands, in the course of the Eighty Years' War, the Pacification of Ghent is signed.
• 1596 – Some 50 Spanish soldiers put to flight about 1,000 Englishmen of the Drake and Hawkins Expedition by hiding in an area of dense vegetation and sounding drums and bugles, giving the impression that they were far more numerous.
• 1765 – Birth of Martín Fernández de Navarrete, Spanish naval officer, historian, politician, intellectual, Enlightenment figure and librarian, known as the Sailor Historian and the last encyclopedist (d. 1844).
• 1808 – In Haiti, the Dominican patriot Juan Sánchez Ramírez defeats the French troops.
• 1820 – In Guayaquil (present-day Ecuador), the Free Province of Guayaquil is established.
• 1849 – In the course of the Conference of León, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua sign an agreement establishing the National Representation of Central America.
• 1902 – In Havana (Cuba), it is agreed to hold the so-called Apprentices' Strike, which would be the first general strike of the newly proclaimed Republic of Cuba.
• 2008 – A terrorist attack carried out by drug traffickers on a bus in Zacapa, Guatemala, kills 15 foreigners.