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Saint’s Day for Benigno, Licinio, Esteban, and Gilberto.
Feb 13, 2018 - 12:57 AM
Spain On This Day - February 13
Saint’s Day for Benigno, Licinio, Esteban, and Gilberto.
Feb 13, 2018 - 12:57 AM
1668 - Spain recognises Portuguese independence under the Treaty of Lisbon, putting an end to almost three decades of conflict.
1801 - In Aranjuez, Luciano Bonaparte and Manuel Godoy sign Agreement of Aranjuez.
1837 - Madrid romantic writer Mariano José de Larra committed suicide.
1839 - As the composer’s health becomes steadily worse, Frédéric Chopin and his lover, the French novelist, George Sand, leave Mallorca, after three months on the island.
1867 - In Spain a Royal Decree that prohibits the recommendations in dealing with matters pertaining to the State Administration promulgated.
1880 - Alfonso XII signs a law abolishing slavery.
1927 - Sports Corporation America is founded.
1928 - In Barcelona the I Championship of Spain Marathon, held between Barcelona and Castelldefels occurs.
1930 - General Emilio Mola was appointed Director General of Security.
1933 - Students of the schools of engineers and architects made a general strike for the approval of the Surveyors Act.
1934 - The Spanish Falange merge and the Boards of National-Syndicalist Offensive in a single patriotic grouping national-unionist: FAITH of the JONS.
1951 - Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, brother of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, was appointed ambassador to Spain in London.
1956 - A cold snap across causes are reached in Santander the -7 ° C, the lowest temperature of the century.
1964 - Spain and Mauritania signed a fishing and commercial agreement.
1967 - An American professor working in the Spanish National Library in Madrid comes across two notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, which had been lost for two centuries.
1976 - Oviedo-Gijón-Avilés hmotorway is opened.
1992 - Congress of Deputies approves the Law of Citizen Security.
1997 - Spanish Congress approves the bill Liberalisation of Telecommunications and sets the conditions of the second phone operator in Spain (Retevisión).
1998 - 300 teachers, artists, intellectuals and public figures signed the Manifesto for Democracy in Euskadi (the Basque Country), which rejects any kind of negotiation with ETA.
2001 - Javier Bardem becomes Spain’s first ever Oscar candidate, when he is nominated for his role in ‘Before Night Falls.’
2002 - Madrid is inaugurated the 21st (twenty-first) edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCO.
2002 - Ana Patricia Booty assumes the presidency of Banesto, part of the financial empire Santander (financial group), controlled by her father, Emilio Botin entity.
2003 - In Madrid, a medical team achieved replace the thoracic aorta with a prosthesis in a patient 64 years old.
2004 - Spain launches electronic ID.
2004 - Near the Galician coast, the Civil Guard intercepted a boat with 5,000 kilos of cocaine.
2006 - In France, the police detain two members of the ETA logistics apparatus.
Births
1778 - Fernando Sor, composer (d. 1839).
1833 - José de Murga y Reolid, aristocrat.
1837 – Valentin Zubiaurre, composer (d. 1914)
1879 - Emilio Herrera Linares, military, scientist and politicaian (d. 1967).
1921 - Gregorio del Olmo, painter.
1924 - Francisco Alonso-Fernández, psychiatrist and professor.
1932 - Julio Aparicio, bullfighter.
1935 - Marcelino Oreja, polítician.
1952 - Regina Otaola, polítician.
1954 - Spain’s most famous transsexual, the actress and model Bibiana Anderson, now known as Bibiana Fernández, was born in Tangiers as Manuel.
1973 - Miguel Poveda, flamenco singer.
1974 - Raquel Meroño, actress.
1979 - Libertad Morán, writer.
1979 - La Mala Rodríguez, singer.
Deaths
1017 - Sancho García, Count of Castilla.
1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, priest and scholar (b. 1515)
1828 - Francisco Salva Campillo, physician and physicist (b 1751).
1837 – Mariano José de Larra, journalist and author (b. 1809)
1923 - Alejo Vera y Estaca, painter (b. 1834).
1939 - Marcelo Adrián Obregón, solidier and one of the last of the Philippines (b. 1877).
1940 - Elisha Meifrén and Roig, painter (b 1858.).
1972 - Julio Martínez Santa-Olalla, archeologist (b. 1905).
1996 - Antonio Ruiz Soler, Antonio the Dancer, dancer and choreographer (b. 1921).
1998 - Jose Barraquer, Spanish ophthalmologist (b 1916.).
1999 - Carles Sabater, singer, composer and actor (b 1962.).
2002 - Ramón Moreno Grosso, footballer (b. 1943).
2012 – Frank Braña, actor (b. 1934)
1801 - In Aranjuez, Luciano Bonaparte and Manuel Godoy sign Agreement of Aranjuez.
1837 - Madrid romantic writer Mariano José de Larra committed suicide.
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1839 - As the composer’s health becomes steadily worse, Frédéric Chopin and his lover, the French novelist, George Sand, leave Mallorca, after three months on the island.
1867 - In Spain a Royal Decree that prohibits the recommendations in dealing with matters pertaining to the State Administration promulgated.
1880 - Alfonso XII signs a law abolishing slavery.
1927 - Sports Corporation America is founded.
1928 - In Barcelona the I Championship of Spain Marathon, held between Barcelona and Castelldefels occurs.
1930 - General Emilio Mola was appointed Director General of Security.
1933 - Students of the schools of engineers and architects made a general strike for the approval of the Surveyors Act.
1934 - The Spanish Falange merge and the Boards of National-Syndicalist Offensive in a single patriotic grouping national-unionist: FAITH of the JONS.
1951 - Miguel Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, brother of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, was appointed ambassador to Spain in London.
1956 - A cold snap across causes are reached in Santander the -7 ° C, the lowest temperature of the century.
1964 - Spain and Mauritania signed a fishing and commercial agreement.
1967 - An American professor working in the Spanish National Library in Madrid comes across two notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, which had been lost for two centuries.
1976 - Oviedo-Gijón-Avilés hmotorway is opened.
1992 - Congress of Deputies approves the Law of Citizen Security.
1997 - Spanish Congress approves the bill Liberalisation of Telecommunications and sets the conditions of the second phone operator in Spain (Retevisión).
1998 - 300 teachers, artists, intellectuals and public figures signed the Manifesto for Democracy in Euskadi (the Basque Country), which rejects any kind of negotiation with ETA.
2001 - Javier Bardem becomes Spain’s first ever Oscar candidate, when he is nominated for his role in ‘Before Night Falls.’
2002 - Madrid is inaugurated the 21st (twenty-first) edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCO.
2002 - Ana Patricia Booty assumes the presidency of Banesto, part of the financial empire Santander (financial group), controlled by her father, Emilio Botin entity.
2003 - In Madrid, a medical team achieved replace the thoracic aorta with a prosthesis in a patient 64 years old.
2004 - Spain launches electronic ID.
2004 - Near the Galician coast, the Civil Guard intercepted a boat with 5,000 kilos of cocaine.
2006 - In France, the police detain two members of the ETA logistics apparatus.
Births
1778 - Fernando Sor, composer (d. 1839).
1833 - José de Murga y Reolid, aristocrat.
1837 – Valentin Zubiaurre, composer (d. 1914)
1879 - Emilio Herrera Linares, military, scientist and politicaian (d. 1967).
1921 - Gregorio del Olmo, painter.
1924 - Francisco Alonso-Fernández, psychiatrist and professor.
1932 - Julio Aparicio, bullfighter.
1935 - Marcelino Oreja, polítician.
1952 - Regina Otaola, polítician.
1954 - Spain’s most famous transsexual, the actress and model Bibiana Anderson, now known as Bibiana Fernández, was born in Tangiers as Manuel.
1973 - Miguel Poveda, flamenco singer.
1974 - Raquel Meroño, actress.
1979 - Libertad Morán, writer.
1979 - La Mala Rodríguez, singer.
Deaths
1017 - Sancho García, Count of Castilla.
1585 – Alfonso Salmeron, priest and scholar (b. 1515)
1828 - Francisco Salva Campillo, physician and physicist (b 1751).
1837 – Mariano José de Larra, journalist and author (b. 1809)
1923 - Alejo Vera y Estaca, painter (b. 1834).
1939 - Marcelo Adrián Obregón, solidier and one of the last of the Philippines (b. 1877).
1940 - Elisha Meifrén and Roig, painter (b 1858.).
1972 - Julio Martínez Santa-Olalla, archeologist (b. 1905).
1996 - Antonio Ruiz Soler, Antonio the Dancer, dancer and choreographer (b. 1921).
1998 - Jose Barraquer, Spanish ophthalmologist (b 1916.).
1999 - Carles Sabater, singer, composer and actor (b 1962.).
2002 - Ramón Moreno Grosso, footballer (b. 1943).
2012 – Frank Braña, actor (b. 1934)
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