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Bernardo de Balbuena

• 1469 – The Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, meet in Dueñas (Palencia).
• 1627 – Death of Bernardo de Balbuena, Spanish poet (b. 1562).
• 1629 – Death of Friar Luis de Bolaños, Spanish Franciscan priest, missionary and evangelizer, translator of the catechism into Guaraní (b. 1550).
• 1698 – England, the States General of the Netherlands and France sign at The Hague the First Partition Treaty of the territories of the Crown of Spain, in anticipation of the death without issue of Charles II of Spain.
• 1755 – Birth of Fausto Elhúyar, Spanish chemist, discoverer of wolfram (d. 1833).
• 1811 – In Spain, General Mina arrives at Ayerbe to besiege and attack the large French garrison fortified in the palace of the Marquis of Ayerbe.
• 1811 – In present-day Ecuador, the State of Quito is proclaimed.
• 1830 – Death of José de La Mar, politician and twice President of Peru (b. 1778).
• 1835 – In Spain, a decree is issued suppressing, with exceptions, the religious orders in the country and ordering the confiscation of ecclesiastical property.
• 1838 – In the Río de la Plata (Argentina), a French squadron invades Martín García Island.
• 1846 – The Island of Cuba is severely battered by the Storm of San Francisco de Borja.
• 1876 – In Mexico, General Porfirio Díaz rises against President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, whom he later succeeds.
• 1878 – In Argentina, Julio Argentino Roca launches the so-called "Desert" Campaign against the tribes of the south of the country.
• 1887 – Death of María Soledad Torres Acosta, Spanish nun, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Mary, Ministers to the Sick (b. 1826).
• 1904 – Birth of Tita Merello, Argentine actress, vedette and tango and milonga singer (d. 2002).
• 1934 – In Spain, the Second Republic reinstates the death penalty by garrote, after the failed coup attempt by the Socialist Party.
• 1968 – In Panama, a coup d'état by the National Guard overthrows President Arnulfo Arias Madrid (1901-1988), and a Junta headed by Omar Torrijos and Boris Martínez is formed.
• 1977 – In Spain, Victoria Kent, former Minister of Health under the Republic, returns to Madrid after 38 years in exile.
• 1978 – In Panama, Arístides Royo assumes the presidency.
• 1979 – Death of Joseíto Fernández, Cuban musician (b. 1908).
• 1980 – The Venezuelan Baruj Benacerraf wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• 1984 – In Panama, Nicolás Ardito Barletta assumes the presidency.
• 1990 – Spain accedes to the World Charter of the Rights of the Child.
• 1990 – The Mexican Octavio Paz wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1991 – In Cuba, Fidel Castro announces a secular state with a mixed economy and blames the Soviet Union for the Cuban economic crisis during the 4th Congress of the Popular Socialist Party of Cuba.
• 1995 – The Mexican Mario Molina wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 2010 – Death of Francisco Suárez Cardona, Spanish ornithologist and ecologist (b. 1953).