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Pablo Picasso

• 1349 – James III, last separate king of Majorca, dies at the Battle of Llucmajor, which meant the definitive incorporation of the kingdom into the Crown of Aragon (b. 1315).
• 1521 – María Pacheco surrenders, handing over Toledo (Spain) on honorable terms to the troops of Charles I, thus ending the War of the Communities of Castile.
• 1533 – In Madrid (Spain), King Charles I appoints Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés first chronicler of the Indies.
• 1555 – Charles I of Spain and V of Germany abdicates the imperial throne and his German possessions to his brother Ferdinand, the future Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1692 – Birth of Elisabeth Farnese, second wife of King Philip V of Spain (d. 1766).
• 1747 – Spain and France sign the Family Compact, which establishes a defensive alliance.
• 1863 – In El Salvador, after a 25-day siege, the Guatemalan army sent by President Rafael Carrera conquers and sacks the town of San Salvador, the country's capital.
• 1881 – Birth of Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973).
• 1927 – 80 miles from Salvador de Bahía (Brazil), the ocean liner Principessa Mafalda sinks, with the loss of 314 lives.
• 1980 – In the city of Cádiz (Spain), the oldest Roman circus in that country is discovered.
• 1984 – On the border between Brazil and Paraguay, João Baptista Figueiredo (president of Brazil) and Alfredo Stroessner (dictator of Paraguay) inaugurate the Itaipú hydroelectric power station, the largest in the world up to that date.
• 1985 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina) (after less than two years of democracy following the civic-military dictatorship), President Raúl Alfonsín decrees a 60-day state of siege to head off military coup attempts.
• 1988 – 450 kilometers southeast of Manila, in the Philippines, the ferry MV Doña Marilyn sinks, and nearly 500 people die.
• 1994 – In Tegucigalpa (Honduras), several Central American governments approve the Declaration of Tegucigalpa on peace and development in the region.
• 2019 – In Chile, the largest demonstration since the return to democracy takes place, in the context of the period known as the social outburst.