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Saint’s Day for Hilario, Gumersindo, Leoncio and Verónica.
Jan 13, 2018 - 1:13 AM
Spain On This Day - January 13
Saint’s Day for Hilario, Gumersindo, Leoncio and Verónica.
Jan 13, 2018 - 1:13 AM
0587 - Recaredo Visigoth king Hispanic, declares its commitment and that of his family to the Catholic faith.
1435 - Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1532 - A royal decree signed in Seville prohibits the Indians mark with hot irons.
1607 - The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1712 - The Council of Castile approves the statutes of the Monte de Piedad, written by Father Francisco de Piquer and Rodilla.
1750 - The Treaty of Madrid annuls the boundary line agreed in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas which had established Portuguese and Spanish territory in South America. It gave further expansion to the Portuguese.
1874 - Ends the cantonalista insurrection of Cartagena before the blockade by sea and land of the governmental forces.
1928 - Jaime Pahissa's opera Marianela is premiered in Valencia.
1936 - Spanish poet Miguel Hernández publishes The ray that does not cease.
1955 - Spain joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
1984 - Unemployment affects 17.81% of the working population, inflation stands at 12.2% and growth at 2.07%.
1986 - The television programme Buenos Días opened morning television in Spain.
1995 - ETA assassinated a policeman in Bilbao.
1998 - the Spanish rock group El Último de la Fila announce they are splitting up.
2001 - 50,000 people demonstrate in Vitoria in a protest called by the Church to demand an end to ETA violence.
2002 - In the center of Bilbao, the terrorist band ETA explodes a car bomb.
Births
0915 - Al-Hakam II, second Umayyad caliph of the Caliphate of Córdoba. (d. 976)
1334 - Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1808 - Francisco Montes Reina, Paquiro, bullfighter. (d. 1851)
1840 - Gumersindo de Azcárate, politician. (d. 1917)
1844 - Joaquín Rucoba, architect (d. 1919)
1895 - Manuel Angeles Ortiz, painter, designer and ceramist of the Spanish Generation of '27.
1920 - Eduardo Carretero, sculptor (d. 2011)
1938 - Gregorio Peces-Barba, politican (d. 2012)
1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Catalan Socialist politician, was born in Barcelona. He would go on to become Mayor of Barcelona for many years, and later President of the Generalitat de Cataluña.
1947 - Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach.
1958 - Francisco Buyo, footballer and manager.
1966 - Maria de la Pau Janer, writer.
1977 - José Francisco Córdoba, El Chivi, Flamenco singer.
1979 - Gorka Otxoa, actor .
1980 - María de Villota, race car driver (d. 2013)
1984 - Kepa Blanco, footballer.
Deaths
1590 - Francisco de Salinas, musician. (b. 1513)
1861 - Carlos Luis de Borbón and Braganza, pretender to the Spanish throne (b. 1818)
1891 - Manuel Alonso Martínez, politician. (b. 1827)
1961 - Antonio Gallego Burín, journalist and politican (b. 1895)
1963 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna, writer. (b. 1888)
2002 - José María Sánchez Silva, writer. (b. 1911)
2002 - Sixto Marco, painter (b. 1916)
2004 - Joan Reventós, politician (b. 1927)
2011 - José Aramburu Topete, soldier (b. 1918)
2011 - Joaquín Colomer Sala, doctor and poltician (b. 1924).
1435 - Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
1532 - A royal decree signed in Seville prohibits the Indians mark with hot irons.
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1607 - The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
1712 - The Council of Castile approves the statutes of the Monte de Piedad, written by Father Francisco de Piquer and Rodilla.
1750 - The Treaty of Madrid annuls the boundary line agreed in the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas which had established Portuguese and Spanish territory in South America. It gave further expansion to the Portuguese.
1874 - Ends the cantonalista insurrection of Cartagena before the blockade by sea and land of the governmental forces.
1928 - Jaime Pahissa's opera Marianela is premiered in Valencia.
1936 - Spanish poet Miguel Hernández publishes The ray that does not cease.
1955 - Spain joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
1984 - Unemployment affects 17.81% of the working population, inflation stands at 12.2% and growth at 2.07%.
1986 - The television programme Buenos Días opened morning television in Spain.
1995 - ETA assassinated a policeman in Bilbao.
1998 - the Spanish rock group El Último de la Fila announce they are splitting up.
2001 - 50,000 people demonstrate in Vitoria in a protest called by the Church to demand an end to ETA violence.
2002 - In the center of Bilbao, the terrorist band ETA explodes a car bomb.
Births
0915 - Al-Hakam II, second Umayyad caliph of the Caliphate of Córdoba. (d. 976)
1334 - Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)
1808 - Francisco Montes Reina, Paquiro, bullfighter. (d. 1851)
1840 - Gumersindo de Azcárate, politician. (d. 1917)
1844 - Joaquín Rucoba, architect (d. 1919)
1895 - Manuel Angeles Ortiz, painter, designer and ceramist of the Spanish Generation of '27.
1920 - Eduardo Carretero, sculptor (d. 2011)
1938 - Gregorio Peces-Barba, politican (d. 2012)
1941 - Pasqual Maragall, Catalan Socialist politician, was born in Barcelona. He would go on to become Mayor of Barcelona for many years, and later President of the Generalitat de Cataluña.
1947 - Carles Rexach, Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach.
1958 - Francisco Buyo, footballer and manager.
1966 - Maria de la Pau Janer, writer.
1977 - José Francisco Córdoba, El Chivi, Flamenco singer.
1979 - Gorka Otxoa, actor .
1980 - María de Villota, race car driver (d. 2013)
1984 - Kepa Blanco, footballer.
Deaths
1590 - Francisco de Salinas, musician. (b. 1513)
1861 - Carlos Luis de Borbón and Braganza, pretender to the Spanish throne (b. 1818)
1891 - Manuel Alonso Martínez, politician. (b. 1827)
1961 - Antonio Gallego Burín, journalist and politican (b. 1895)
1963 - Ramón Gómez de la Serna, writer. (b. 1888)
2002 - José María Sánchez Silva, writer. (b. 1911)
2002 - Sixto Marco, painter (b. 1916)
2004 - Joan Reventós, politician (b. 1927)
2011 - José Aramburu Topete, soldier (b. 1918)
2011 - Joaquín Colomer Sala, doctor and poltician (b. 1924).
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