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Template:On this day - September 9
From Hispanopedia
- 1091 – In the Taifa of Seville, the Almoravids begin the assault on Seville (which they had besieged since May), forcing al-Mutamid to surrender unconditionally.
- 1541 – In the town of Santiago de los Caballeros, Beatriz de la Cueva, widow of the conquistador Pedro de Alvarado, swears her office as Governor of the Captaincy General of Guatemala (which comprised the present-day territories of Guatemala, Belize, Chiapas, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica), although she dies two days later when a flood brings down the chapel where she was praying.
- 1551 – The villa of Texcoco (in New Spain, present-day Mexico) receives the title of city, granted by Charles I of Spain.
- 1595 – Birth of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish humanist, physicist, biographer, theologian and ascetic writer (d. 1658).
- 1618 – Birth of Juan Cererols, Spanish Baroque composer, organist, harpist, violinist and monk (d. 1680).
- 1654 – Death of Pedro Claver, Spanish Jesuit missionary and priest (b. 1580).
- 1731 – Birth of Francisco Javier Clavijero, Novohispanic historian and religious (d. 1787).
- 1807 – Having been defeated in Buenos Aires, the English forces of General John Whitelocke leave Montevideo for England, where he will be tried.
- 1868 – Death of Vicente Hernández Couquet, Spanish sculptor (b. 1837).
- 1888 – The Treaty annexing Easter Island to Chile is signed.
- 1962 – The Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, today the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, is founded in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
- 2011 – Death of Renato Prada Oropeza, Bolivian-Mexican scientist (b. 1937).
- 2020 – In Colombia, demonstrations break out over police abuse of a citizen, leaving 11 dead and hundreds wounded, and fires at the Immediate Attention Centers (CAI) across the country.
- 2020 – Death of Henrietta Boggs, American and Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist and activist, wife of the former President of Costa Rica José Figueres Ferrer (b. 1918).
