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Agustín de Iturbide

• 1333 – In Castile, King Alfonso XI grants the city of Burgos the town of Muñó and its extensive countryside known as Can de Muñó.
• 1604 – In the city of Santafe de Bogotá (in present-day Colombia), Archbishop Bartolomé Lobo Guerrero founds the Colegio Mayor de San Bartolomé, entrusting its administration to the Jesuit fathers, who run it to this day. It is the oldest school in that country, with more than 400 years of uninterrupted educational work.
• 1761 – Birth of Cosme Damián Churruca, Spanish naval officer (d. 1805).
• 1777 – Birth of Simón de Rojas, Spanish botanist (d. 1827).
• 1783 – Birth of Agustín de Iturbide, first Mexican emperor (d. 1824).
• 1803 – Death of Salvador Fidalgo, Spanish naval officer (b. 1756).
• 1810 – In Santiago de Chile, the first national government junta is formed.
• 1821 – In Mexico, the Army of the Three Guarantees (under Agustín de Iturbide) enters Mexico City, marking the end of Spanish rule and the beginning of the First Mexican Empire.
• 1841 – In Pamplona (Spain), General Leopoldo O'Donnell leads a movement against Baldomero Espartero, whose aim is to put María Cristina de Borbón back on the throne.
• 1936 – At the Alcázar of Toledo (Spain), the troops of the 5th Bandera of the Spanish Legion, under General José Varela, lift the siege of the Alcázar.
• 1955 – Spain (under the Francoist regime) applies for membership of the UN.
• 1975 – In Spain, the government executes by firing squad three militants of the FRAP (Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front), of the PCE (m-l) (Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist)), and two militants of ETA. They were the last executions of the Franco dictatorship.
• 2019 – In Nicaragua, El Nuevo Diario ceases publication after 39 years because of the sociopolitical crisis the country has faced since April 2018.