Template:On this day - September 14

Francisco de Quevedo

• 1262 – Alfonso X the Wise conquers the city of Cádiz (in present-day Spain), which had been under the rule of Al-Andalus.
• 1264 – Alfonso X the Wise conquers the important Muslim fortress of Sanlúcar de Barrameda (present-day Province of Cádiz, Spain).
• 1485 – In the Cathedral of Zaragoza (Spain), an attack is carried out against the inquisitor of the Kingdom of Aragon, Pedro de Arbués, by a group of Jewish converts, unleashing a fierce repression against the Jews and Jewish converts.
• 1580 – Birth of Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish politician and writer of the Golden Age (d. 1645).
• 1771 – In Buenos Aires (Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata), the first letter carrier is appointed.
• 1810 – In the city of Cochabamba (present-day Bolivia), an emancipatory uprising takes place against the Spanish Crown, led by Colonel Francisco del Rivero and the caudillo Esteban Arze.
• 1813 – José María Morelos reads the address Sentimientos de la Nación at the Congress of Anáhuac, proclaiming a Mexico independent of Spain, although with its sovereignty residing in Ferdinand VII.
• 1916 – Death of José Echegaray, Spanish engineer, playwright and politician, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1904 (b. 1832).
• 1920 – Birth of Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan essayist, writer and poet (d. 2009).
• 1920 – Birth of Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (d. 1998).
• 1923 – In Spain, the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera begins after the coup d'état of the previous day.
• 1968 – In San Miguel Canoa (Mexico), the townspeople lynch five employees of the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla.
• 1970 – Death of María Ros, Spanish soprano (b. 1891).
• 2000 – Death of Mauricio Wacquez, Chilean writer and philosopher (b. 1939).
• 2001 – Juan Antonio Samaranch leaves the presidency of the IOC after 20 years.
• 2007 – Death of Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin, Mexican muralist, engraver, writer, architect, chronicler, professor and restorer (b. 1922).