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Template:On this day - October 9
From Hispanopedia
- 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Frankish kingdom.
- 1264 – In the city of Valencia, the first Christian Mass in that region is celebrated, one day after King James I the Conqueror entered it.
- 1264 – During the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, the Kingdom of Castile takes the then Muslim city of Sherish and renames it Xerez.
- 1390 – Death of John I of Castile, the last King of Castile to be solemnly crowned (b. 1358).
- 1557 – In the Venezuelan Andes, Captain Diego García de Paredes founds the village of Trujillo.
- 1558 – In the Venezuelan Andes, Captain Juan Rodríguez Suárez founds the city of Mérida.
- 1581 – Death of Luis Bertrán, Spanish Dominican missionary (b. 1526).
- 1734 – Death of Martín Martínez, Spanish physician and philosopher (b. 1684).
- 1743 – In the Kingdom of Chile, the town of San José de Buena Vista de Curicó is founded.
- 1762 – Some 20 km south of present-day Guatemala City, a flood destroys the town of Petapa.
- 1805 – Birth of Manuel Rivadeneyra, Spanish publisher and printer (d. 1872).
- 1818 – Birth of Francisco Navarro Villoslada, Spanish writer and ideologue (d. 1895).
- 1820 – José Joaquín de Olmedo proclaims the Independence of Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador.
- 1950 – Death of Demetrio Herrera Sevillano, Panamanian poet (b. 1902).
- 1967 – In La Higuera (Bolivia), Che Guevara, Argentine-Cuban physician, politician and revolutionary guerrilla, is executed (b. 1928).
- 1934 – In Turón (Spain), during the Revolution of Asturias, a revolutionary squad shoots 8 Brothers of the Christian Schools and a Passionist priest, known as the Martyrs of Turón.
- 1945 – In Spain, the Francoist regime decrees a full pardon for those convicted of supporting the Republic up to 1 April 1939.
- 1948 – Death of Martín Doello Jurado, Argentine biologist, paleontologist and oceanographer (b. 1884).
- 2007 – In Buenos Aires (Argentina), the priest Christian Von Wernich is sentenced to life imprisonment for 34 cases of illegal deprivation of liberty, 31 cases of torture and 7 aggravated homicides.
