December 15

January 27, 2024 - Reading time: 8 minutes

Saint’s Day for Nina, Fortunato, Valeriano, Maximino and Marcos

1412 - Kingdom of Aragon Fernando de Antequera was elected king in Caspe.
1483 - Kingdom of Aragon, Ferdinand I decreed the death penalty for converts that appeal to Rome.

1539 - In Duitama (now Colombia) the soldiers of the conquistador Baltasar Maldonado and of cacique Tundama ended the Battle of the Reservoir War

1710 - The Bourbon troops of Luis Antonio, Duke of Noailles, place siege to the city of Gerona.
1913 - Melquiades Alvarez and Pablo Iglesias lead a party in Madrid in protest against the war in Morocco.

Gibraltarians first - www.wikipedia.es

1930 - Major General Ramón Franco and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano head a republican uprising in Cuatro Vientos failing for lack of support.
1930 - The residents of Puebla de Guzmán (Huelva), calling on their own, the Second Spanish Republic.
1959 - Opening of the high speed Talgo train entre Madrid y Barcelona.
1970 - The student riots in Madrid motivate the closure of the university.
1976 - Spain holds a referendum on political reform that leads to a new political model after the Franco dictatorship. Democracy begins.
1982 - Spain reopens border (the pedestrian) with the city of Gibraltar, after 13 years of blockade.
1995 - The European Council meeting in Madrid agrees a single European currency and names it the euro.
2005 - The Spanish Congress approves the new Anti-Tobacco Law.

2014 - Health experts have called for a change in working hours which are ever more dysfunctional. ‘Strength and excellence is not taught in Spain. We continue with a picaresque culture’, said a researcher.

Births

Francisco Antonio García Carrasco - https://commons.wikimedia.org/

1742 - Francisco Antonio García Carrasco Díaz Spanish soldier, Royal governor of Chile. His political relations with Juan Martínez de Rozas and a smuggling scandal involving the frigate Scorpion, Born in Ceuta (d. August 10, 1813, Lima Peru)
1833 - Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer, painter (d. 1870)
1843 - Francisco Silvela, politician and writer (d. 1905)
1844 - Arturo Soria, developer (d. 1920)
1863 - José de Navas Ramírez, writer and journalist.
1889 - Joan Riudavets, supercentenary (d. 2004)
1892 - Valeriano León, actor (d. 1955)
1898 - Fernando Remacha, composer born in Tudela (d. 1984)
1902 - Paco Martínez Soria, actor.
1903 - Antonio Iturmendi Bañales, Carlist (d. 1976)
1926 - Josep Maria Castellet, writer and editor.
1931 - Cristino de Vera, painter.
1934 - Elisa Montés, actress.
1936 - Pedro Osinaga, actor.
1941 - José Antonio Zaldúa, footballer.
1943 - Txomin Perurena, cyclist.
1945 - Octavio Uña Juárez, writer and poet.
1961 - Paula Molina, actress.
1962 - Juan y Medio, television presenter.
1972 - Sete Gibernau, pilot of motorcycles.
1976 - Roger Garcia Junyent, footballer.
1982 - Borja García, race car driver.

Deaths
1815 - José Miguel Luján Pérez sculptor (b. 1756)
1909 - Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
1958 - Jaime Pujiula, priest and biologist (b. 1869)
1965 - César González Ruano, writer and journalist. (b. February 12, 1903 Madrid)
1990 - Miquel Coll i Alentorn, Catalan politician. (b. May 12, 1904 Barcelona)
1995 - Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, politician Deputy Prime Minister (1976-81) and Minister of Defence (1977-79) (b. 1907)
1998 - Justiniano Casas Peláez physicist (b. 1915)
2005 - Julián Marías, philosopher. (b. 1914) ... 91 años.