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History

Spain On This Day - April 17


Saint’s Day for Aniceto, Elias, Isidoro, Roberto and Esteban.



Apr 17, 2022 - 12:49 AM
796 - Al-Andalus, Al-Hakam I comes to power as an independent emir.
1492 - a document known as the Capitulaciones de Santa Fe is signed by the Catholic Kings, Ferdinand and Isabella, setting out the terms of the agreement reached with the explorer, Christopher Columbus, for his first voyage of discovery.

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Capitulaciones de Santa Fe - Photo rtve.es


1535 - in New Spain, the Spanish conquistador Antonio de Mendoza was appointed Viceroy (the first).
1610 - King Philip III ordered the expulsion of the Moriscos of Aragon.
1711 - the Army Corps of Engineers is formed by royal decree of Philip V.
1931 - the ABC newspaper publishes a manifesto to the country from Alfonso XIII, who had left Spain after the Republican victory in the municipal elections on 14 April, where the monarch states that he is not giving up his rights but is suspending the use of his Royal Powers, and recognises Spain as in charge of her own destiny.
2004 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is invested Socialist Prime Minister of Spain.
2005 - elections are held in the Basque Country and Galicia.

Births
1271 - Juana I of Navarra, Queen of Navara.
1849 - Luis Adaro, engineer (d. 1915).
1867 - María Guerrero, actress (d. 1928).
1891 - José Enrique Varela, soldier.
1896 - Señor Wences, ventriloquist (d. 1999).
1946 - Àngel Casas, Catalan journalist.
1950 - Miguel Morales Barreto, guitarrist from the band Los Brincos.
1963 - The actor, Pedro Casablanc, was born in Casablanca, Morocco.
1980 - David Otero (El Pescao), guitarrist from the band El Canto del Loco.

Deaths
1723 - Tomas Vicente Tosca, mathematician, cartographer and theologian (b 1651.).
1902 - The Duke of Cádiz, Francisco de Asís de Borbón, King Consort to Isabela II of Spain, died in France.
1996 - Jose Luis Lopez Aranguren, philosopher and essay writer (b 1906.).
2008 - Rosario la Dinamitera, milicia (b. 1919).
2011 - Alfonso Martínez, basketball player (b. 1937).




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