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Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

• 1472 – The Capitulation of Pedralbes is signed, by which Barcelona and the whole Principality of Catalonia surrender to King John II of Aragon.
• 1503 – Birth of Isabella of Portugal, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1539).
• 1648 – In Münster (present-day Germany), the Peace of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years' War in Central Europe and the Eighty Years' War that pitted the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands against Spain.
• 1692 – In Havana (Cuba), the Storm of San Rafael strikes, the first hurricane recorded in the island's history.
• 1796 – In Havana (Cuba), the Storm of San Rafael strikes, a hurricane that sank five ships in the capital and left many missing.
• 1830 – In Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera, leader of the Colorado Party, is elected first constitutional President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
• 1853 – Death of Eduardo Kaunitz de Holmberg, Austrian military officer and botanist who fought on the pro-independence side in the Argentine War of Independence (b. 1778).
• 1842 – Death of Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean politician, military officer and supreme director (b. 1778).
• 1849 – Birth of Luis Antonio Robles, known as Negro Robles, Afro-Colombian politician, the first Black person to reach the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia.
• 1871 – In the city of Córdoba (Argentina), the Córdoba Astronomical Observatory is inaugurated.
• 1870 – Death of Antonio María Claret, Spanish religious, apostolic missionary in Catalonia and the Canary Islands, archbishop of Santiago de Cuba and confessor to Queen Isabella II, as well as founder of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (b. 1817).
• 1881 – In Santa Fe Province (Argentina), Guillermo Lehmann founds the city of Rafaela.
• 1886 – Birth of Delmira Agustini, Uruguayan modernist poet.
• 1887 – Birth of Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Princess of Battenberg and Queen consort of Spain (d. 1969).
• 1901 – Death of Dióscoro Puebla, painter of the Spanish eclecticism period (b. 1831).
• 1970 – In Chile, the socialist Salvador Allende is elected President.
• 1977 – Death of José María de Cossío, Spanish writer and polygraph, member of the Real Academia Española (b. 1892).
• 1989 – Death of José García Santesmases, physicist and pioneer of computing in Spain, builder of the first Spanish-made analog computer and microprocessor (b. 1907).
• 2016 – Death of Jorge Batlle, Uruguayan lawyer, journalist and politician, President of Uruguay between 2000 and 2005 (b. 1927).
• 2016 – In the Magallanes Region, in Punta Arenas, Chile, capital of Chilean Patagonia, Radio Antártica 100.3 FM begins broadcasting.
• 2019 – In Spain, the exhumation of Francisco Franco takes place, from the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen to the El Pardo Cemetery.
• 2023 – Death of Luis Pérez Pons, Venezuelan actor with a well-developed career in film, theatre, television and dubbing (b. 1951).