Template:On this day - October 31

Eleanor Plantagenet

• 1214 – Death of Eleanor Plantagenet, queen consort of Castile between 1170 and 1214 through her marriage to King Alfonso VIII of Castile (b. 1161).
• 1615 – In Spain, Miguel de Cervantes dedicates to the Count of Lemos the second part of El Quijote, which he titles Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha.
• 1748 – Birth of José Iglesias de la Casa, Spanish poet (d. 1791).
• 1768 – Birth of María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda, the first woman in Spain to hold the university degree of doctor and the dignity of Honorary Academician of the Language (d. 1803).
• 1790 – In Havana (Cuba), the Papel Periódico de La Habana, the first literary and economic newspaper published on the island, appears.
• 1825 – In Mexico, the first constitution of the Internal State of the West is promulgated by the First Constituent Congress.
• 1850 – In Madrid (Spain), Queen Isabella II opens, on the Carrera de San Jerónimo, the inaugural session of the Spanish Cortes in their new seat, the present Congress of Deputies.
• 1861 – In London (England), representatives of Spain, France and the United Kingdom sign the Convention of London in response to Mexico's 1861 law suspending payments.
• 1873 – In the Caribbean Sea, off Santiago de Cuba, the Spanish government seizes the American steamer Virginius, which was carrying an expedition of Cuban pro-independence agents.
• 1943 – Death of Manuel Pérez Beato, Cuban bibliographer and physician born in Spain (b. 1855).
• 1950 – In Puerto Rico, fighting continues between American troops and Puerto Rican nationalists on the second day of the Nationalist Revolution.
• 1978 – In Spain, the Cortes approve the Constitution of 1978, described as the Constitution of consensus, since it was drafted on the basis of negotiations and agreements among the various political parties represented in parliament.
• 2005 – Birth of Leonor de Borbón, Princess of Asturias, firstborn of King Felipe VI and his consort, Queen Letizia.
• 2014 – Death of José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, Venezuelan writer, philosopher and professor (b. 1929).